Word: torts
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...Employing a little-known 1789 law called the Alien Tort Claims Act, the suit argued that by virtue of its partnership with the junta, Unocal "aided and abetted" the Burmese army as its soldiers allegedly burned a baby to death, raped women and girls and forced villagers into slave labor to clear a path for the pipeline. Unocal has declined to comment beyond the statement outlining the settlement, which says that the company "respects human rights in all of its activities...
...code--which includes entertaining such ideas as entirely abolishing the Internal Revenue Service by going to a national sales tax. You cannot get more radical than that. His subsidiary aims, earthshaking in any other context but almost minor in this one, are kneecapping the lawsuit industry with serious tort reform and installing a conservative judiciary that will long outlive his presidency...
...code-which includes entertaining such ideas as entirely abolishing the Internal Revenue Service by going to a national sales tax. You cannot get more radical than that. His subsidiary aims, earthshaking in any other context but almost minor in this one, are kneecapping the lawsuit industry with serious tort reform and installing a conservative judiciary that will long outlive his presidency...
...states--such as Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bill Nelson of Florida--will be up for re-election in 2006 and don't want to be picked off either. Democratic Senators say Reid plans to choose his fights carefully, perhaps letting a compromise on tort reform go through, for example, but battling fiercely if Bush tries to privatize parts of Social Security...
Still, much of DeMint's campaign platform--in favor of tax cuts, tort reform and partial privatization of Social Security--is by-the-book Republicanism. To pick up a Senate seat, the G.O.P. will tolerate a little restlessness in the ranks...