United States Third Circuit

20 V.I.C. section 555, which limits the recovery of non-economic damages arising from a motor vehicle accident to $75,000, is impermissibly retroactive as applied to a case that was pending when it was enacted.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/11/2007
• Decided 02/20/2008
• Published 02/20/2008

Judges

• Before:  SMITH, NYGAARD, and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric Fleisig-Greene, (Argued), United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Desmond L. Maynard, Shawn E. Maynard Hahnfeld, (Argued), Law Offices of Desmond L. Maynard, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, USVI, for Appellee.