A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that Texas state-court judges weren’t proper defendants in a case challenging a state abortion law led a federal court to release two jurists from a suit seeking to invalidate a medical malpractice damages cap.
Medical malpractice victims whose awards stand to be severely curtailed due to Texas’s $250,000 limit on noneconomic damages in health-care liability cases want the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to declare the cap invalid under federal constitutional law.
They asked the court to block two state-court judges, Amy Clark Meachum and Jan Soifer, from applying ...
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