Clark v. Adair County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that stare decisis is “not binding” on a constitutional question
• striking $875,000 non-economic damages cap on state equal protection grounds using heightened scrutiny
• invalidating $875,000 cap in personal injury actions utilizing intermediate scrutiny analysis
• invalidating $875,000 cap in personal injury actions utilizing intermediate scrutiny analysis
• cap on medical malpractice damages unconstitutional because it imposed burden of supporting insurance industry solely upon persons more severely injured, and, therefore, more in need of compensation
• increase in amount of cap increases unfairness of burden on few most badly injured

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).