Word: torts
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...conference is to focus attention on how the settlement may impact tort law, Hanson said. Tort law deals with civil wrongs such as personal injury which are tried in civil court...
...first case, which the U.S. won by a score of 85-54, asked whether a judge or a jury should award damages in a tort suit...
...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...