So Much for Tort Reform
From the Chicago Tribune:
“The Illinois Supreme Court struck down the state’s medical malpractice law today, saying it violates separation of powers by allowing lawmakers to interfere with a judge’s ability to reduce verdicts.”
At least, from first blush, the majority exercised some measure of sound judicial reasoning:
Justices Lloyd Karmeier and Rita Garman dissented on certain points of the decision and expressed sympathy to providers of medical care, citing President Obama’s recent address to a joint session of Congress that the justices said “admonished” the nation’s collective failure to enact health care reform.
[snip]
Justices in the majority, however, said their decision was not made with health care reform efforts in Washington in mind, saying the “Obama administration’s health care reform efforts are not the backdrop against which we have decided the constitutionality.”
In other words, decide on the basis of your understanding of the law, not of the headlines.
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