Word: torts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...course will analyze property, contract, tort and criminal law, as well as the decision to sue, from an economic perspective that examines how legal rules affect behavior, Shavell said...
...course will analyze property, contract, tort and criminal law, as well as the decision to sue, from an economic perspective that examines how legal rules affect behavior, Shavell said...
...President is calling. He wants you, the big cheese at Megawhiz Amalgamated, to come to Washington to discuss "corporate responsibility." You are thinking, "I need this? Wall Street is screaming for me to slash jobs and increase the stock price; competitors are breathing down my neck; and tort lawyers are cruising the open oceans of commerce like so many U-boats, hoping to catch my logo in their periscopes. And the President wants to discuss responsibility...
...busy showering Democrats with money. Lawyers poured $2.5 million into Clinton's re-election effort last year, more than any other occupational group. (Liapakis' own firm gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party.) The trial lawyers' association has been trying to beat back an array of state and federal tort-reform measures, but, despite its best efforts, a bill limiting damages in product-liability suits cleared Congress last week. Clinton has promised to veto...