Legal Opinion

Emma Gayle Weaver, etc. v. Stephen C. Myers, M.D.

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided November 9, 2017No. SC15-1538PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.

This case involves a Florida constitutional challenge to the 2013 amendments to sections 766.106 and 766.1065 of the Florida Statutes. Generally,-the statutes pertain to invasive presuit notice requirements that must be satisfied before a medical-negligence action may be filed, as well as an informal discovery process that accompanies that presuit notice process, and the amendments- at issue here authorize, secret, ex.parte interviews as part of the informal discovery process. The First District Court of Appeal upheld the constitutionality of these statutory amendments in Weaver v. Myers, 170…

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