Sibley v. Board of Sup'rs of Louisiana State University

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the right of malpractice victims to sue for damages caused by medical professionals does not involve a fundamental right and therefore, a damage limitation need only be reasonably related to the state's goals to survive attack under Article I, Section 22 of the Constitution
• liability limitation applied to action brought against state university for negligent treatment of patient by resident at university associated hospital
• $500,000 cap on recovery in medical malpractice actions did not violate due process under fourteenth amendment or right of access to courts guaranteed by state constitution
• $500,000 statutory limit on malpractice liability for state services
• Louisiana's Act modeled on Indiana's Act
• Louisiana’s Act modeled on Indiana’s Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).