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Conference Papers from external events can be found here.
For papers associated with Liability Project events, go to the specific event pages, indexed here.
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Prosecutors Gone Wild
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008
While Eliot Spitzer is gone, the overreaching tactics by which he made his name as a prosecutor are not.
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Battling Zombies
By Ted Frank
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
If dead lawsuits can be brought back to life to inflict damage on defendants, the loss of legal certainty would be devastating to the ability of businesses to gauge risk.
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Omission in FACTA Might Be Windfall for Plaintiff's Bar
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007
As there is no cap on total recovery under FACTA, damages for a willful violation could be in the hundreds of millions.
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No, It's a "Pro-Investor" Ruling
Letter to the Editor
By Ted Frank
Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007
The Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta is investor-friendly.
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Pro Se's Outlandish Menu
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007
Delusional plaintiffs with crazy suits are just a symptom of a larger problem.
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The Roberts Court and Liability Reform
By Ted Frank
Posted: Monday, July 23, 2007
We should be cautiously optimistic about future developments as important cases about federal preemption and the scope of securities laws come before the Supreme Court in 2007.
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Will the Bush Administration Cave in to Political Pressure from Trial Lawyers?
By Ted Frank
Posted: Friday, June 8, 2007
Judges and politicians must not allow securities litigation to continue to spiral out of control.
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Prime Target
By Ted Frank
Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Congress should restrict the liability of "predatory lenders" to expand credit and protect them from predatory trial lawyers.
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Evil Is Always with Us
By Ted Frank
Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2007
Will the judicial system give us the means to properly fight evil?
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Fen-Phen Zen
By Ted Frank
Posted: Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Some of the lawyers who committed massive fraud are finally being brought to justice.
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Liability Outlook No. 2, 2007 - The Class Action Fairness Act Two Years Later
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| In the second Liability Outlook of 2007, Ted Frank gives an assessment of how CAFA has fared in its first two years and what challenges remain in the context of mass torts. |
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Liability Outlook No. 1, 2007 - Rollover Economics
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| In this first Liability Outlook of 2007, Ted Frank examines a nine-figure verdict against Ford for alleged "defective design" in its SUVs and analyzes the legal problems that led to it. |
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