George Cantu v. Providence Hospital, et al.
DueProcess Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Does Washington State's medical malpractice statute of limitations violate constitutional rights?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Does Washington State’s RCW 4.16.350(3), granting one year statute of limitations after discovering medical malpractice and eight year repose compared to three year discovery rule and unlimited repose statute of limitations in other bodily injury cases in RCW 4.16.080(2) violate constitutional rights to equal protection, due process, right to jury trial, and grant special privileges and immunities to health care providers versus their victims and contrary to the situation of other citizens of these United States? II. Did the Washington Courts, in dismissing and failing to reverse dismissal of Plaintiff’s medical malpractice case for failure to provide an expert opinion thereon, violate Mr. Cantu’s due process constitutional rights by denying application of the discovery rule extending the statute of limitations to join as a party the allegedly negligent anesthesiologist and by denying him litigation discovery information necessary for his Stanford University anesthesiology professor expert to support his case?