Matter of Puello (Commr. of Labor)

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• concluding that state statutory caps on damages in medical malpractice cases applied only to state claims, not to federal civil rights claims, based on the language of the SUPREME COURT relevant state statutes
• concluding that state statutory caps on damages in medical malpractice cases applied only to state claims, not to federal civil rights claims, based on the language of the SUPREME COURT relevant state statutes
• “Our common-law tradition counsels that courts ‘are not lightly to interfere’ with lawful exercises of the ‘freedom of contract.’” (quoting Atlantic Grayhound Lines v. Skinner, 172 Va. 428, 439 (1939))

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