Word: torts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courts, whose juries could be quite populist. Southern Mississippi is home to a small but aggressive plaintiff's bar, featured twice over the past year on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and on episodes of 60 Minutes. For all of Lott's passion for tort reform, one of the nation's wealthiest tormentors of tobacco companies is his brother-in-law Dick Scruggs, beside whose pool the majority leader can often be found, sipping a Coke and working his cell phone, whenever the Senate is out and the weather is warm...
...this state." But Robert Rosati, a lawyer for the districts, said the ruling hurts employees and employers alike. "The court has basically told employers, 'Don't give references. Even if you have no facts to support any negative references, if the person whom you refer later commits a tort you stand a chance of getting sued.'" C. Michael Carrigan, an attorney representing another district added, "I would imagine a lot of (employers), if they couldn't say anything good about the employee without having to say something bad, they'd probably opt for saying nothing." And for employers facing lawsuits...
...absolutely wonderful professor, who seemed to never be prepared for class," said Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark, a 1972 Harvard law graduate who took Jaffe's first-year tort class...
...TORT REFORM NOT PASSED Prop. 211, California--Makes it easier for an individual to sue for securities fraud and prohibits the legislature from making changes to attorney-client fee arrangements...
Hendry appreciates the fact that the 30th is a Democratic district that incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson drew for herself. He believes he can claim it for for the Republicans by proposing a platform of tort reform, gasoline-tax reduction, closure of the IRS, term limits, law and order, family values, the right to life, and limited government. It is likely Hendry will face Johnson again in a runoff...