Court Opinion

ID: 9778106
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:32:51.909726+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:03.801328
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DONNELLY, Judge,
dissenting.
In my view, it serves no useful purpose to address a question of whether the legislature has acted unwisely.
The issue on this appeal is one of classification between minors: When the General Assembly amended § 516.170 in 1976 to deprive certain minors (see § 516.105) of its tolling provisions (economic rights), did it render § 516.105 a special law and therefore a violation of Mo. Const, art. Ill, § 40(6)?
I think not. On the record before us, I cannot say that the General Assembly’s *15action is without “rational justification.” United States v. Kras, 409 U.S. 434, 446, 93 S.Ct. 631, 638, 34 L.Ed.2d 626 (1973).
I respectfully dissent.