LEBRON v. GOTTLIEB MEMORIAL HOSP.

Nos. 105741, 105745.

930 N.E.2d 895 (2010)

237 Ill.2d 217

Abigaile LEBRON, a Minor, et al., Appellees, v. GOTTLIEB MEMORIAL HOSPITAL et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

February 4, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Hall, Hugh c. Griffin, Jacqueline R. Sharuzi, Hall, Prangle & Schoonveld, LLC, Eugene A. Schoon, Gary Feinerman, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago for appellants Gottlieb memorial Hosp., Florence Martinoz.

Richard H. Donohue, Karen Kies DeGrand, Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC, Chicago, Saul J. Morse, Brown, Hay & Stephens LLP, Springfiueld, Theodore B. Olson, Douglas R. Cox, Andrew S. Tulumello, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC, for appellant Roberto Levi-D'Ancona.

Lisa Madigan, Atty. Gen., Springfield (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor Gen., Jane Elinor Notz, Deputy Solicitor Gen., Brett Legner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, of counsel), for intervenor-appellant.

Todd A. Smith, Devon C. Bruce, Power Rogers & Smith, P.C., Jeffrey M. Goldberg, Chicago, Kenneth Chesebro, Cambridge, MA, Jonathan S. Massey, Bethesda, HD, Michael H. Gottesman, Georgetown University Law Center, Robert S. Peck, Francine A. Hochberg, Valerie M. Nannery, Center for Constitutional Lit., P.C., Washington, DC, for appellees.

Carmel M. Cosgrave, Michael Resis, Ellen L. Green, Jennifer Stuart, SmithAmundsen LLC, Chicago, for amicus curiae Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp.

Melinda Reid Hattan, Maureen D. Mudron, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Amer. Hosp. Ass'n.

Jon N. Ekdahl, Leonard A. Nelson, Chicago, for amicus curiae Amer. Med. Ass'n.

George F. Galland, Jr., Miner Barnhill & Galland, Chicago, for amicus curiae Ill. Catholic Health Ass'n, Ill. Rural Health Ass'n.

Thaddeus J. Nodzenski, Naperville, for amicus curiae Ill. Hosp. Ass'n.

Richard R. King, II, Robert John Kane, Chicago, for amicus curiae Ill. State Med. Society.

Charles E. Reiter, III, James L. Reed, Jr., Maywood, for amici curiae Loyola University Med. Center, Loyola University Physician Foundation.

Richard A. Devine, State's Atty., Chicago (Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Elizabeth Reidy, Randolph Johnson, Karen J. Dimond, Asst. State's Attorneys, of counsel), for amicus curiae County of Cook.

H. Thomas Wells, Jr., Chicago (Miles J. Zaremski, of counsel), for amicus curiae Amer. Bar Ass'n.

J. Timothy Eaton, Shefsky & Froehlich, Ltd., Aurora N. Abella-Austriaco, Chicago, Jack C. Carey, Charles J. Northrup, Springfield, for amici curiae Chicago Bar Ass'n, Ill. State Bar Ass'n.

Joseph P. Costello, Costello, McMahon, Burke & Murphy, Ltd., Chicago, for amicus curiae Chicago Federation of Labor.

Geoffrey L. Gifford, opavalon Gifford & Laatsch, Chicago, for amici curiae Citizen Action/Ill., Ill. Alliance for Retired Americans.

Michael W. Rathsack, Chicago (Donald R. Jackson, Peoria, Marian E. Perkins, Chicago, of counsel), for amici curiae Nat. Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People, Cook County Bar Ass'n.

Joel D'Alba, Asher, Gittler, Grenfield & D'Alba, Ltd., Chicago, for amicus curiae Ill. AFL-CIO.

Philip Harnett Corboy, Jr., Bruce M. Kohen, Springfield (Bruce R. Pfaff, of Chicago, of counsel), for amicus curiae Ill. Trial Lawyers Ass'n.

Edward J. Kionka, Carbondale, for amicus curiae Professors Neil Vidmar, et al.

Michelle M. Kohut, Chicago, for amicus curiae Women's Bar Ass'n of Ill.


OPINION

Chief Justice FITZGERALD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

At issue in this appeal is the constitutionality of section 2-1706.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) (735 ILCS 5/2-1706.5 (West 2008)), which was adopted as part of Public Act 94-677 (Act) (see Pub. Act 94-677, § 330, eff. August 25, 2005). Section 2-1706.5 sets certain caps on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases. Relying on this court's decision in...

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