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Last week, as the House of Representatives voted for legal-reform measures as part of a Republican pledge to stanch the tide of frivolous lawsuits and to rein in society's litigious ways, the anecdotal evidence of the reformers' nightmares was nowhere stronger than in Barbour County. Last year juries in Alabama awarded $200 million in punitive damages, some of it in cases where actual loss was minuscule compared with the damages. "Alabama is off the charts," said George Priest, a Yale University professor of law and economics. "Lawsuits used to be about restitution. Now Jere Beasley goes into court...
...profits for one company after taxes than all the quadriplegics and brain damaged get from product liability or civil settlements." Marc Galanter, director of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin, called the bills "the triumph of folklore over research. There is no great rising tide of litigation...
...League: I honestly think Penn will beat Alabama in its opening round game. If Matt Maloney and Jerome Allen are on it could be a long day for the Crimson Tide...
...first game, the Crimson fell behind early when Roger Williams vaulted to a 14-6 lead. The tide turned, however; junior Ryan Westendorf and freshmen David Olson and Evan Beachy led the Crimson comeback...
...commission, co-chaired by Senators Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii (who lost an arm in the war), and including grandson David Roosevelt, is hunkering down. But the tide seems to be against their view: that F.D.R.'s deception of the 1930s-politically incorrect now but necessary, he believed, for the politics of the time-should be perpetuated in a monument intended for the ages. "We all need to understand what it was this man conquered,'' says Goodwin. "If Franklin Roosevelt were to come back, I think he would want his disability to be shown in some...