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Two Men and Their Families Sue North Dakota Hospital, Saying Babies Were Switched at Birth

The plaintiffs are seeking damages and a jury trial as the hospital denies liability and points to missing 1988 records and staff turnover.

Overview

  • The dispute began when a DNA match from an ancestry site led Jeremy Morrison to learn the people who raised him are not his biological parents.
  • Morrison, another man identified through testing as Kyle Bylin, and both families filed a civil suit in July 2026 accusing Unity Medical Center in Grafton of switching the two newborns born there in 1988.
  • The complaint lists causes including negligence, deceit, medical malpractice, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress and seeks more than $50,000 with a jury trial demand.
  • Unity Medical Center has denied wrongdoing, asked the court to dismiss the case, and argued the passage of nearly four decades has left key medical and staffing records unavailable and may bar the claims.
  • Beyond the legal fight, both sets of parents have met their biological sons while the two men have not yet met, and the case highlights how consumer DNA testing can surface decades-old family and legal disputes and create evidentiary hurdles for courts.