Word: tort
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...During the 2000 campaign, it was a little-noticed part of a larger tort-reform package headlined by dollar-amount caps on jury awards. But now that Bush is in the White House and his legislative agenda is hitting Congress, the Wall Street Journal reports that the idea has been dusted off - and trial lawyers are calling it a preemptive strike on 2002. Because for Bush, these guys have an even nastier habit than smoking: contributing large sums of money to the Democrats...
...Which is why you never heard "tort reform" escape Bill Clinton's lips. But this is George W. Bush we're talking about, friend and beneficiary of Big Oil and Big Cigarette alike. He's seeing these billions of dollars flow out of Philip Morris' vaults into trial lawyers' pockets, with an assist from the Clinton Justice Department, and he has an idea where the next stop will be: Democratic party coffers. Bush means to start intercepting those installments and send the money back to the states instead...
During the campaign, when it was hardly a certainty that he would beat the incumbent Ann Richards, he had four issues - juvenile justice reform, tort reform, education and welfare reform. He was coached to talk about those four issues and that was all he did talk about. He had become the precise opposite of the rambling scatter-shooter I had met in his office. He was somewhat wooden, but he stuck to the four issues relentlessly and it proved to be a winning strategy. In fact he was so wooden and so programmed that I don't think anyone...
Szaller said he believes the collection is an ideal case study in mass tort and product liability law. Since the law is always evolving, he said, the completeness and breadth of the material will offer law students an opportunity to see the development of one of the earliest mass tort cases during its lengthy time in court...
...Mass tort cases are a relatively new and increasingly important field. Dalkon Shield was one of the first such cases and helped establish U.S. legal precedent on the subject...