Civil Litigation,
Government
May 1, 2019
Bill that would bar racial, gender considerations from damage awards moves forward in Legislature
A bill that would ban consideration of a plaintiff’s race, ethnicity and gender in calculating civil damage awards passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
Do courts consider the lives of women and people of color to be worth less than those of white men? If so, does this bias violate the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution?
Those are among the provocative questions behind a new bill that would prohibit "consideration of a plaintiff's race, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation in the calculation of monetary damage awards in state tort actions." SB 41 passed t...
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