Word: tort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem of medical malpractice and the tort litigation system are not satisfactory to anybody today," Hiatt said...
From a rocking chair behind the kitchen, Pearman dispenses advice on divorce, landlord-tenant disputes and other food for tort. Locals have developed a taste for Pearman's guidance. Referrals from agencies and simple word of mouth have brought 10,000 client customers to his door, hungry for justice...
...County courthouse last week. Close by, in a marble-pillared courtroom hidden behind security gates, two men stood before a civil court judge and began a legal duel that involved an unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," intoned civil rights crusader Morris Dees, "we're going to ask you to return a verdict so big that it will put Tom Metzger out of business...
...course, if the case were tried under American tort law, a jury would probably award the Lithuanians an additional $4 trillion for pain and suffering...
...think that this joke has a strong element of truth at its core. Patterson and Davis use phrases such as "Social Studies teaching...a dead end professionally," "graduate students..[who] become pre-tort coaches rather than apprentice...teachers" and "disloyal," which appear to be veiled and not-so-veiled threats to their graduate students who teach in Social Studies...