Deen v. Egleston
Deen v....(U.S. 11th Cir., Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury And Tort Law, Professional Malpractice) In a medical malpractice action, the denial of partial summary judgment for defendant is reversed where the district court, in striking down, under the Equal Protection Clause, a state statute that did not exempt the “legally incompetent” from the general two-year statute of limitations, overlooked the essential principle that matters of social and economic policy, particularly when they came to bear on the health and welfare of a state’s citizens, were quintessentially legislative in nature.
