Smith v. Schulte

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing 'the unique status' of counties and cities that enables the legislature to regulate their tort liability
• recognizing “the unique status” of counties and cities that enables the legislature to regulate their tort liability
• striking down, as violating the equal protection guarantee of the Alabama constitution, Ala. Code 1975, § 6-5-547 , which limited to $1,000,000 the amount recoverable in a wrongful death action against medical providers
• \factor to be weighed ... is the relative importance of the private right or interest burdened by the statute\
• \factor to be weighed . . . is the relative importance of the private right or interest burdened by the statute\
• $1,000,000 cap on total recovery in medical malpractice cases violates right to trial by jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).