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WHITNELL v. SILVERMAN

Nos. 95-C-0112, 95-C-0259.

686 So.2d 23 (1996)

Lorraine S. WHITNELL, Wife of/and James Whitnell v. Dr. Arthur SILVERMAN, et al. Lorraine WHITNELL, Wife of/and James Whitnell v. Dr. Arthur SILVERMAN, Dr. John G. Menville, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion December 16, 1996.

Rehearing Denied December 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, Charles T. Williams, Jr., John Elliott Baker, Blue Williams, Metairie, for Applicant.

Russ Michel Herman, Mark Reed Wolfe, Stephen Jay Herman, Charles Owen Taylor, Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar; Chester Arthur Fleming, III, Terry Beth Deffes, Charles Archibald Boggs, Robert Irby Baudouin, Boggs, Loehn & Rodrique; Harold Ashton Thomas, Thomas, Hayes, Beahm & Buckley; Darryl Joseph Foster, Lemle Kelleher; Robert J. Conrad, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, for Respondent.

Robert John Conrad, Jr., Jeffrey Edward Richardson, New Orleans, for Louisiana State Medical Society Amicus Curiae.

Edward Paige Sensenbrenner, Charles Fenner Gay, Jr., New Orleans, Counsel for Ochsner Clinic and Ochsner Foundation Hospital Amicus Curiae.

Stewart Earl Niles, Jr., Bruce James Toppin, Michelle Anne Bourque, New Orleans, Counsel for LAMMICO Amicus Curiae.

Dissenting Opinion by Justice Lemmon December 16, 1996.

JOHNSON, Justice.*

We granted the State of Louisiana's writ of certiorari and ordered that the State's appeal be consolidated with Dr. Menville's appeal, to determine whether La.R.S. 9:5628 is unconstitutional as applied to plaintiffs' diagnosed disease which has a latency period of less than three years.2 The trial court found that the statute...

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