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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...
Harvard Law School's Langdell Library is set to acquire the copious legal papers of the plaintiffs in a landmark mass tort case...
...gift will "allow students to become familiar with the kinds of materials they'd see in a mass tort case," said David R. Warrington, librarian for special collections at the law school...
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...