Ohio Supremes’ Ruling Good for Bad Bills, Bad for Good Juries
by John Michael Spinelli
Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 03:10:14 PM PDT
OhioNews Bureau
ONB COLUMBUS: The best Republican Supreme Court money can buy delivered another blow to Ohioans Thursday, when it upheld as constitutional a punitive bill rammed through a strongly led Republican General Assembly in 2004 that arbitrarily imposed low limits on damages in personal injury lawsuits.
Two dissenting judges said the ill-considered ruling substituted the judgment of the legislature for the judgment by a jury, and upholds the prerogative of the legislature, through its power to cap noneconomic damages, to effectively eliminate them.
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