Court Opinion

ID: 9465482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:47:37.961139+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:12.307761
License: Public Domain

RONEY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result reached by Judge Tjoflat on the ground that the Florida plan for handling medical malpractice claims meets the rational relationship standard required for constitutionality, which all parties here agree to be the proper test. Once that standard is met, neither the federal Government nor this Court should concern itself with the wisdom of the plan. A state program can be both good and bad, or either, and still be rational so as to hurdle the constitutional obstacles of equal protection and due process. The success of a program, or lack thereof, does not provide the key to constitutionality, only rationality or the lack thereof.