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1 Mar 2017, 12:41 pm by Eric Turkewitz
  Even noted tort reformer Ted Frank wrote, in 2012, that the data from Texas “substantially undermines the empirical case for the conventional wisdom that Texas’s 2003 reforms against medical malpractice lawsuits attracted more doctors to Texas. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 3:38 am by Walter Olson
Gascho case would allow Supreme Court to tackle fee abuses in class actions [Ted Frank, Daniel Fisher, earlier] Will competing versions be introduced of FADA, the religious-exemption First Amendment Defense Act? [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 9:30 pm by Justin S. Daniel
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Representative John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) introduced legislation that would eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by repealing the section of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) that establishes the agency. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 3:02 am by Walter Olson
[Mississippi Business] One view of emergent controversy: “The Case Against National Injunctions, No Matter Who Is President” [Samuel Bray, LawFare, more from same author] “Court To Review Target’s $10M Customer Data Breach Settlement” [Consumerist; Minneapolis Star-Tribune; Ted Frank’s Center for Class Action Fairness is objecting] In or near Kansas? [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 7:55 am by Eric Turkewitz
I then proceeded to hire Ted Frank to represent me as an objector, despite him being a tort “reformer. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 6:16 am by Walter Olson
Ted Frank writes that four minutes of fact checking would have shown the story wrong. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 5:48 am by Michael Markarian
Animals in Research and Testing: Signed into law in June 2016, the Frank R. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 11:53 am by Michael Markarian
Frank Guinta, R-N.H., Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., and Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., this bill would protect horses and consumers by prohibiting the transport and export of U.S. horses to slaughter for human consumption. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 12:33 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Because let's be frank: This is not an election on which democratic forces can reasonably disagree, one which pits one candidate with flaws, virtues and one set of policy ideas against another candidate with flaws, virtues, and an opposing set of policy ideas. [read post]
15 Oct 2016, 8:38 am by Walter Olson
Ted Frank and plaintiffs’ lawyers battle over objections in the class action aftermath of the case of the car too good to be true [Daniel Fisher] Related: Andrew Trask on class action objectors. [read post]
9 Sep 2016, 5:57 am by Staci Zaretsky
[Big Law Business] * Subway's "footlong" class-action suit is now before the Seventh Circuit, with Ted Frank of the Competitive Enterprise Institute arguing that the lawyers who settled the sandwich-size discrepancy gave themselves too much credit, calling them, along with the class representatives, "the only beneficiaries of the case. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Settlement insurance, a new litigation-finance mechanism, can have the unintended result of casting light on just how little benefit some class actions provide to consumers [Ted Frank, CEI] Yet another new litigation finance mechanism: trial-expense insurance purchased by lawyers [Bloomberg/Insurance Journal] South Carolina law firm sues 185 different defendants in the average asbestos case it files, and it’s still far from tops in that department [Palmetto Business Daily] … [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 10:00 pm by Andrew Trask
Sheley of Calgary School of Law and professional gadfly Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness, the use of prospective injunctive relief in consumer-fraud class actions. [read post]