PRICE v. TANNER

No. 87-8045.

855 F.2d 820 (1988)

Gwendolyn PRICE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph TANNER, Commissioner of Labor of the State of Georgia, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 1, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Sweet, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Bryndis Roberts Jenkins, State Law Dept., Annette M. Cowart, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Before VANCE and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and GARZA, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 1, 1988.

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves the issue whether a Georgia Workers' Compensation statute, Ga.Code Ann. § 34-9-285, violates the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. Section 34-9-285 provides that where an employee is disabled by the aggravation of a pre-existing condition by an occupational disease, workers' compensation benefits are...

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