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Direct costs to the United States of tort litigation are $252 billion a year. Indirect costs are far higher. Reform would boost the economy at a critical time.
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In its Wyeth decision, the Supreme Court has gutted "federal preemption," one of the few remaining protections against state interference in the national economy.
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The full extent of the contemporary Court's dereliction at the structure front appears in sharpest relief against the purest structure court in American history: the Court of the Gilded Age.
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Spending a trillion dollars might jump-start the economy--but at the price of damaging not only the nation's balance sheet, but also our constitutional system.
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The Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine could lead the FDA to require excessive warnings on medications and impose "contraindications" that would constrain medical practice.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Legal scholars of widely varying perspectives discuss the future structure and shape of American federalism.
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Jackpot justice refers to courts rewarding trial lawyers with outsized judgments unrelated to any actual damages, but arecent case in Minnesota gives the phrase a whole new meaning.
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Aside from the tremendous cost to taxpayers, civil Gideon will be counterproductive in its supposed goals of helping the poor and making the legal system more accessible.
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Oklahoma is on the verge of becoming the next magnet jurisdiction for overbroad consumer class actions.
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Texas Review of Law & Politics
Thursday, July 17, 2008
A new book acknowledges that the litigation explosion has harmed America, but it places the blame on right-wing politics.
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