Stephens v. Snyder Clinic Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a classification which may result in some inequality only violates equal protection if the classification is ‘irrelevant’ to the goals the State intended to achieve through passage of the statute
• stating that a classification which may result in some inequality only violates equal protection if the classification is `irrelevant' to the goals the State intended to achieve through passage of the statute
• stating that a classification which may result in some inequality only violates equal protection if the classification is “irrelevant” to the goals the State intended to achieve through passage of the statute
• examining new shortened statute of limitations for personal injury actions against healthcare providers without any suggestion this created a new cause of action
• affirming an unfortunate result as the injury to the plaintiff was not ascertainable until after the statute of limitations extinguished her right to bring the action
• shorter statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims does not violate the Kansas Constitution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).