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1 Aug 2007, 4:29 am
An update on what's happening - or not happening as the case may be - in Washington. [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 5:42 am
Eric Turkewitz has posted (also at his own site) a rebuttal of sorts to the NYT piece I mentioned a couple of days ago. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 4:49 am
From the New York Times: A new federal study issued by the Congressional Research Service reports that 21 states will run out of money for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the coming year, and of those states, 9... [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 3:45 am
Kathy Fackler of SaferParks.org has an editorial about what she sees as the lessons learned from the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom accident and the regulatory implications. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 12:17 pm
The American Tort Reform Association has released its annual "Judicial Hellholes" (pdf) ranking: West Virginia South Florida Cook County, Illinois Atlantic County, New Jersey Montgomery and Macon Counties, Alabama Los Angeles County, California Clark County, Nevada Rio Grande Valley and... [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 4:58 am
James Lileks, whom I like when he's funny and get annoyed by other times, has one of the former type columns today, discussing the peanut butter salmonella situation. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 5:05 am
Cristina Tilley has posted three pieces to SSRN. [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 12:11 pm
I didn't notice this story yesterday, but it's a pretty big deal.In an order issued yesterday, November 6, the Supreme Court asked (read: required) the Solicitor General to express the views on the United States in an important preemption case... [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 3:46 pm
The posting is here and addresses (among other things) the spat between Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani about the former's support, or blocking, of various measures that would modify liability rules. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 11:46 am
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court acknowledged, for the first time, that the loss of chance doctrine was good law in that jurisdiction: "Where a physician's negligence reduces or eliminates the patient's prospects for achieving a more favorable medical... [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 11:30 am
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28 Aug 2008, 11:44 am
Our Mass Tort Lit Blog colleague, Byron Stier, has posted on Bepress Another Jackpot (In)Justice: Verdict Variability and Issue Preclusion in Mass Torts. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 3:05 pm
The plaintiff's attorney in the case I discussed here sent along the complaint and exhibits to it: Download Cyclone.pdf [PDF]. [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 2:18 am
Shahar Dillbary has posted to SSRN Causation Actually. [read post]
15 Aug 2006, 3:26 am
Via Point of Law, the Michigan Supreme Court has barred the use of inventory settlements in asbestos cases -- putting low-value cases together with high-value cases in settlement discussions. [read post]
31 Oct 2006, 4:47 am
Well, not exactly, but this Weekend Edition story (click on listen) has an entertaining bit where Bryson discusses growing up in a time (the 1950s) when smoking was healthy, people didn't need to be warned about the unfortunate possible interactions... [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 4:23 am
James Beck Mark Herrmann over at Drug Device Law Blog have a fascinating post, Anatomy of a Mass Tort. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 10:04 am
Obviously it's speculation to guess why, but I observe that the bridge collapse search that triggered ads before no longer does. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 9:51 am
The new issue of AAJ's Trial has a story (paid membership required) about the ongoing litigation against the trailer manufacturers who provided trailers for Katrina refugees: More than 500 Louisianans who have been living in trailers provided by the Federal... [read post]
5 Sep 2008, 10:58 am
In a week that saw hurricanes and the Republican National Convention, here's what happened in torts. [read post]
