WARREN Mercy Health and several of its employees have asked a federal judge to dismiss a high-profile civil rights lawsuit filed by a Warren woman who was criminally charged after suffering a miscarriage.

Attorneys representing Mercy Health and several St. Joseph Hospital nurses and administrators filed a motion for judgment in the U.S. District Court.

The lawsuit was brought by Brittany Watts, who alleges the hospital staff violated her civil rights and shared private medical information with police, which led to her being charged with a crime following her miscarriage in September 2023.

In their legal request, the hospital defendants argue that even if the facts described by Watts are true, the standard for her claims against them at this stage of litigation must fail and should be

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