(November 7, 2018, 1:43 PM EST) -- SPOKANE, Wash. — While a deaf plaintiff need not plead the specific medical information she left uncommunicated as a result of a hospital’s alleged failure to provide an in-person interpreter, her “vague” and potentially “hyperbolic” allegations are insufficient to establish discrimination under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other federal statutes, a federal judge in Washington state held Nov. 2 (Alissa Juech v. Children’s Hospital and Health System Inc., et al., No. 15-1482, E.D. Wash., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 188000)....