Morris v. Gross

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the medical malpractice cap is unconstitutional insofar as it purported to terminate medical malpractice actions that had already been filed under existing law
• noting that due process forbids the legislature from abolishing a remedy that has long been relied upon such that substantive rights of litigants are affected
• noting that upon the plaintiff‟s filing her written claim with the (now defunct) Medical Malpractice Review Board, “[t]he Board assumed jurisdiction of the claim and, by a letter dated March 29, 1976, notified the parties that a hearing would be set in the near future . . . .”
• noting the general prohibition on retroactive legislation under the Tennessee Constitution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).