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DEEN v. STEVENS

No. S10A0258.

698 S.E.2d 321 (2010)

DEEN, et al. v. STEVENS, et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

July 23, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Brent J. Savage, Kathryn H. Pinckney; Clark & Williams, Nathan T. Williams, Savannah, for appellants.

Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, Norman D. Lovein, Steven P. Bristol, Brunswick, for appellees.

NAHMIAS, Justice.

The primary question presented in this appeal is whether the Georgia statute that suspends the operation of the tolling statutes for mental incompetence in medical malpractice actions irrationally discriminates against the mentally incompetent in violation of the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section I, Paragraph II of the Georgia Constitution of 1983. The trial court rejected...

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