Louisiana Court Finds Limitations on Citizens’ Rights to Recover for Damages Unconstitutional

Louisiana Court Finds Limitations on Citizens’ Rights to Recover for Damages Unconstitutional

• September 15, 2011
• By Gerard Devita
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Despite the never-ending assault by corporate special-interests on the rights of injured individuals, the Court system in our country is often the last vanguard of protection that the average citizen has for seeking remedy when they are injured.  For example,  Louisiana’s medical malpractice damages cap was recently found to violate the state constitution’s equal protection and adequate remedy guarantees, by their state trial court:

http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/16730.htm