Category: Legal Reform

Don’t Read Captain’s Quarters Today

This post on Captain's Quarters, "Anti-Tobacco Efforts Get A Little Weird," is amusing, but don't risk the danger of reading it unless you are a trial lawyer or a state attorney general. The powers that be decided long ago that ...
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Whose Victory? One Year Later, Affirmative Action Ruling Solves Little, by Tom Florip

New Visions Commentary /
Last June marked the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Grutter v. Bollinger decision, which upheld the use of racial preferences at the University of Michigan (U-M) but struck down an "admission points" system quantifying those preferences. U-M President ...
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Eight States Decide to Set National Global Warming Policy

National Policy Analysis #516 /
The attorneys general of eight states -- California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin -- have filed a lawsuit against five of the nation's largest electricity producers. The attorneys general claim their intent is to ...
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Legal Brief: Frivolous Thoughts on a Frivolous Case; Coca-Cola Can’t Win; Civil Justice Costs Up 100-Fold

Frivolous Thoughts on a Frivolous Case The environmentalist organization Friends of the Earth has said it is suing energy companies over perceived global warming. As befits a frivolous lawsuit, some frivolous thoughts: * "Global warming," in colloquial usage, refers a ...
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Legal Brief: Lawsuits Harm the Practice of Medicine, Doctors in Four States Say; Court Says It is Okay Not to Warn Strangers that You Have a Flowerbed; 96 of 159 Georgia Counties Now Lack Obstetric Care

Lawsuits Harm the Practice of Medicine, Doctors in Four States Say A new survey conducted by the American Tort Reform Association and SickofLawsuits.org has examined the opinions of physicians practicing in four states most often singled out by lefal reform ...
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Legal Brief: Toxic Torts: Turning Fears to Gold; We Used to Know…; Predatory Attorneys Drive Up Malpractice Insurance Rates

Toxic Torts: Turning Fears to GoldPublic officials in the trendy seaside city of Santa Monica, Calif. have just been taught a bitter lesson: Put your faith in the trial lawyers, and the trial lawyers will take you to the cleaners ...
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The Benefit of Brown: Providing Opportunity for Those Who Want It

New Visions Commentary /
At a recent press conference in the U.S. Capitol, black political activist Mychal Massie noted: "I stand here cognizant of the fact that, not many years ago, my mother could have hoped only to scrub the floors here. But, today, ...
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Time to Clean Up the Asbestos Mess, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #513 /
As James Russell Lowell said, "Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof." An umbrella may be all we're getting in the latest watered-down version of the asbestos litigation reform bill. Asbestos was most widely used in this country ...
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Maybe Bar Exams Should Have a Tolerance Test

ConservativeBlog.org /
From our mailbag today, to the black conservative group Project 21: You call youselves "conservatives!" What do Black Americans have to conserve in America? You should be looking to be "progressives"? Black Americans need a lot more progress in order ...
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Willpower: Losing Weight The Responsible Way; Stop That Train?; America’s Civil Justice System is Broken

Legal Brief /
Willpower: Losing Weight The Responsible Way I have known Tommy Thompson, the former governor of Wisconsin and current Secretary of Health & Human Services, for decades. We've had our differences every now and then, but we've been on the same ...
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