BUTLER v. FLINT-GOODRIDGE HOSPITAL OF DILLARD UNIVERSITY

No. 8739.

347 So.2d 1308 (1977)

Cleo Allen BUTLER et al. v. FLINT-GOODRIDGE HOSPITAL OF DILLARD UNIVERSITY et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

July 1, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Warren E. Mouledoux, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald Ensenat, Asst. Atty. Gen., for applicants.

Before REDMANN, STOULIG and MORIAL, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

This action is a demand for $4,000,000 against physicians and a hospital for alleged medical malpractice. To defendants' plea of prematurity for failure first to present the claim to the medical panel provided by La.R.S. 40:1299.47 plaintiff filed an opposition asserting the unconstitutionality of that aspect of the statute under La.Const. art. 5, § 1, and of the statute's damage limitation under art...

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