{"id":1358,"date":"2013-03-02T15:57:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1358"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:31:27","slug":"5th-circuit-upholds-damage-caps","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/es\/personal-injury-blog\/5th-circuit-upholds-damage-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Circuit Upholds Damage Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maybe in a generation or two we\u2019ll get some jurists who are hostile to placing handcuffs on the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>(Reuters) &#8211; A federal appeals court has upheld Mississippi&#8217;s $1 million cap on what people can recover for pain and suffering in a case with direct bearing on pharmaceutical product liability and medical malpractice cases.<\/em><\/p><p><em>A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rejected a challenge brought by Lisa Learmonth, a woman injured in a car wreck who said the $1 million cap was unconstitutional and violated her right to a jury trial.<\/em><\/p><p><\/p><cite><em>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com\/Legal\/News\/2013\/03_-_March\/Appeals_court_upholds_Mississippi_damages_cap_for_personal_injury_cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Appeals court upholds Mississippi damages cap for personal injury cases<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1436,"template":"","blogtag":[26,27],"class_list":["post-1358","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blogtag-civil-justice","blogtag-tort-reform"],"acf":[],"x_featured_media":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/5th-Circuit-Upholds-Damage-Caps-220x220.jpg","x_featured_media_medium":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/5th-Circuit-Upholds-Damage-Caps-540x360.jpg","x_featured_media_large":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/5th-Circuit-Upholds-Damage-Caps-1680x1120.jpg","x_featured_media_original":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/5th-Circuit-Upholds-Damage-Caps.jpg","x_date":"marzo 2, 2013","x_metadata":{"_wp_old_date":"2020-10-29","image_header_blog":"1436","_image_header_blog":"field_5f86255998692","_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":"[]","_yoast_wpseo_keywordsynonyms":"[\"\"]","_thumbnail_id":"1436","name_author":"Justinian Lane","_name_author":"field_5fa027bb365d8","image_author":"1426","_image_author":"field_5fa02869365d9","alternative_link":"","_alternative_link":"field_5faae1f7dd7d1","_yoast_wpseo_title":"5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Damage Caps","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"A federal appeals court upheld Mississippi's $1 million cap on what people can recover for pain and suffering in a medical malpractice case. Learn more."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blogtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justinian.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blogtag?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}