Clark v. Oregon Short Line Railroad

How courts have described this case

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

• holding an eight-year limitation period applying to silicosis-related deaths unconstitutional under a variation of the rational basis test
• where state of medical knowledge changed since enactment of statutory provision, section of workers’ compensation act precluding recovery to dependents of worker whose death occurred more than eight years after exposure to silicosis violated equal protection
• where state of medical knowledge changed since enactment of statutory provision, section of workers' compensation act precluding recovery to dependents of worker whose death occurred more than eight years after exposure to silicosis violated equal protection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).