Tag: Legal Brief

Willpower: Losing Weight The Responsible Way; Stop That Train?; America’s Civil Justice System is Broken

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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 ...

Legal Briefs #38: Four-Tiered Judicial Crisis

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There is a judicial crisis in this nation: Radical Judges: Activist judges, largely appointed by liberal presidents, are interpreting the law in ways that the Founding Fathers never intended. Bans, for instance, on students saying the Pledge of Allegiance but ...

Fighting Disease is Better Than Suing Over It

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The FDA may have severely undermined a group of personal injury attorneys looking to sue the makers of a new class of wonder drugs for schizophrenia. It turns out that the nation's premier drug regulatory agency recently agreed with the ...

An Rx for Our Ailing Health Care System: Caps on Lawsuit Awards; Eliminate Credit Card Debt With One Simple Lawsuit; Health Care System Would Benefit if Lawyers Worked on Hourly Basis

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An Rx for Our Ailing Health Care System: Caps on Lawsuit Awards Every once in a while, you hear a story you know you will remember for the rest of your life. On July 5, 2002, Tony Dyess of Mississippi, ...

Asbestos Lawsuits Often Frivolous; Call the Police, Get Sued; Economic Damages Only 20 Percent of Award Costs

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Alien Tort Claims Act Used Against Poor Africans America's 34-million African-Americans should be outraged by the campaign of economic blackmail that a handful of profit-driven personal injury lawyers are waging against the financially beleaguered Republic of South Africa. Against the ...

Alien Tort Claims Act Used Against Poor Africans; Even Socialized Medicine Harmed by Excessive Lawsuits; Lawsuits Literally a Lottery

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Alien Tort Claims Act Used Against Poor Africans America's 34-million African-Americans should be outraged by the campaign of economic blackmail that a handful of profit-driven personal injury lawyers are waging against the financially beleaguered Republic of South Africa. Against the ...

Is a Basic American Freedom Being Violated?; Perhaps the Court Should Have Ordered the Team to Win; Why Not Protect Commercial Speech?

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Is a Basic American Freedom Being Violated? Not many people can boast resumes like Alabama Attorney General William H. Pryor's. Unfortunately, discrimination plagues him in the U.S. Senate and may block his appointment to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Environmental Litigation Threatens Endangered Species; In this Reparations Case, the Slaveowners Sue the Slaves; If It’s Commercial, Its Not Free

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Environmental Litigation Threatens Endangered Species You know environmental lawsuits have spun out of control when barge activity on the Missouri River must come to a halt to preserve habitat for the nesting piping plover. A federal district court decision ordering ...

In this Reparations Case, the Slaveowners Sue the Slaves

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A group of Egyptians in Egypt and Switzerland are making plans to sue Jews everywhere but especially in Israel, claiming the Israelites led by Moses and Aaron stole "trillions" of tons of gold from Egypt during the Biblical Exodus. This ...

Why Are Medical Costs So High? Courtrooms Are a Culprit; Arsonists Sue for Insurance Payoff; Judicial Probe looking at Big Jury Awards; Legal Reform is a Patient Issue

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Every once in a while, you hear a story you know you will remember for the rest of your life. On July 5, 2002, Tony Dyess of Mississippi, a father of two, suffered head injuries in an auto accident. He ...
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