A judge in Wisconsin wrongly tried to force a hospital to give a COVID-19 patient ivermectin, the state’s top court ruled on May 2.
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Lloyd Carter’s 2021 order that Aurora Medical Center in Hartford administer ivermectin to patient John Zingsheim was improperly entered because the judge “cited no law,” Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley said in a majority opinion.
An appeals court reversed Carter’s order, prompting Zingsheim’s nephew Allen Gahl, who holds power of attorney for his uncle, to ask the state’s top court to step in.
Gahl advanced several arguments, including that Carter properly exercised its authority when it imposed the order requiring ivermectin administration. Aurora Health Care attorneys opposed the intervention request….