161022P.pdf   06/22/2017  S.S.  v.  Bellevue Medical Center
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-1022
                          and No:  16-1024
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Kelly, Circuit Judge, and Sippel, 
   District Judge] 
   Civil case - Nebraska Hospital Medical Liability Act. Notice is not a 
   requirement for qualification for the Act's protections, but rather a 
   requirement imposed on those already qualified; the defendant was 
   qualfied, and did not lose the Act's protections even if it failed to 
   properly post notice regarding opt-out; damage cap in the Act does not 
   violate the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial; nor does the Act 
   violate the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause; the Act does not impair 
   access to the courts by limiting recoverable damages; Equal Protections 
   Clause challenged rejected;; substantive due process challenge rejected; 
   defendant's challenges to three different jury instructions rejected.