AUSTIN SOFIE, ET AL, Appellants,
v.
FIBREBOARD CORPORATION, ET AL, Respondents.
The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 27, 1989.
As amended by order September 27, 1989.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender, William Rutzick, Janet L. Rice, and Kirk I. Mortensen; Stritmatter, Kessler & McCauley and Paul Stritmatter, for appellants.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, by Steven T. Johnson, Kent T. van den Berg, Gary C. Grotz, and Mark Hughes, for respondents Fibreboard, Celotex, Owens-Illinois, and Keene Corporations.
Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, by William H. Mays, Mary H. Spillane, and Elizabeth A. Christianson, for respondent Eagle-Picher Industries.
McKay & Gaitan, by Linda E. Blohm, for respondent Raymark Industries.
Bryan P. Harnetiaux and Robert H. Whaley on behalf of Washington State Trial Lawyers Association; Daniel F. Sullivan and Jeffrey Robert White on behalf of Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Richard H. Robblee on behalf of United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices, amici curiae for appellants.
Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, Michael E. Tardif, Senior Assistant, and Michael Madden, Assistant; Bertha B. Fitzer and F. Ross Burgess on behalf of Washington Defense Trial Lawyers Association and Defense Research Institute; Jeffrey I. Tilden and Rex C. Browning on behalf of the Liability Reform Coalition, amici curiae for respondents.
The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.
[As amended by order of the Supreme Court September 27, 1989.]
UTTER, J.
Austin and Marcia Sofie challenge the constitutionality of RCW 4.56.250. This statute, part of the 1986 tort reform act, places a limit on the noneconomic damages recoverable by a personal injury or wrongful death plaintiff. The Sofies brought a direct appeal to this court after the trial judge in their tort action, under the direction of the statute, reduced the jury's award of noneconomic...
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