{"id":164195,"date":"2026-10-01T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/01\/pennsylvania-supreme-court-upholds-250k-cap-on-tort-claims-against-state\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:53:07","slug":"pennsylvania-supreme-court-upholds-250k-cap-on-tort-claims-against-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/01\/pennsylvania-supreme-court-upholds-250k-cap-on-tort-claims-against-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds $250K Cap on Tort Claims Against State"},"content":{"rendered":"

The court struck down arguments that the cap was a violation of the right to a jury trial and remedy, asserting that the cap is within the power of the legislature to enact. The dissent argued the caps are facially unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

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The court struck down arguments that the cap was a violation of the right to a jury trial and remedy, asserting that the cap is within the power of the legislature to enact. The dissent argued the caps are facially unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

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The court struck down arguments that the cap was a violation of the right to a jury trial and remedy, asserting that the cap is within the power of the legislature to enact. The dissent argued the caps are facially unconstitutional. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The court struck down arguments that the cap was a violation of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}