Word: torts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whom could future disaster victims sue? The Federal Tort Claims Act establishes that the Government is liable at most for proved negligence of its employees. Contractors, except a few working for the Atomic Energy Commission or doing Defense Department research, are on their own; if their products are at fault in a catastrophe, they can be liable for enough to outstrip any conceivable insurance and bankrupt them many times over. But to collect even a few cents on the dollar, the victim would probably face the staggering job of pinning down in court exactly which of perhaps dozens of contractors...
...first, up-from-the-roundhouse railroaders grumbled that Lawyer Alpert did not know a trestle from a tort-but none could question his zeal. Repeatedly, Alpert has argued that i) commuter travel is necessary, 2) the commuters cannot be expected to bear all the costs of the rail service they require and 3) somebody...