"I am very appreciative of what Torts has done here, " Sather said during a conference call.
It says foreigners can sue in U.S. courts over torts and violations of international law.
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Laughs aside, the bad news is that there are myriad ways companies can fall prey to liability torts.
Trial lawyers and their Democratic allies call for health reform along European lines to reduce costs, making torts less expensive.
Innocent people railroaded, guilty ones freed, billions dished out on the basis of quack theories of causation in mass torts.
After the long, exhausting fight over welfare reform, much other reform of regulations, torts, taxes, affirmative action simply got left by the wayside.
At a minimum, said Southwestern Law School mass-torts expert Byron Stier, his pay and method of calculating it should be disclosed.
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If Mr. Cuomo won't investigate pay-to-play torts on his own, then someone else should investigate Mr. Cuomo's relationship with these pay-to-play law firms.
The test questions for the MBE (Multistate Bar Examination) portion focus on Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property and Torts.
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Stier, a mass-torts expert at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
"Hopefully whoever we hire has a lot of the good things that Torts had and a lot of good things that Tom Renney had, " Sather said.
Also as is typical for disasters in the industrial south, the steering committee was dominated by plaintiff lawyers who specialize in asbestos and other toxic torts.
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She was in my torts class and I went back and found my notes from that, from her exam, graded anonymously, and it was a terrific exam.
That's why corporations end up getting into bed with plaintiff lawyers--to get their bankruptcy plans approved, says Richard Nagareda, a mass-torts expert at Vanderbilt University Law School.
Republicans in Congress now suspect that the Justice Department's torts division deliberately withheld evidence that would have helped the Branch Davidians in their lawsuit against the government.
Torts (e.g. online abuse) and property disputes (e.g. virtual assets)?
That shoves the ever-spreading Gulf spill firmly out of what we know about traditional tort law and into the strange world of mass torts like asbestos, fen-phen and Vioxx.
The conservative Supreme Court is now set to weigh in on two additional cases which could have a further adverse impact on investors, consumers, employees and people injured by toxic torts.
In my view, the Court wisely exercised judicial restraint and, in an essentially unanimous decision, ruled that U.S. federal courts are not prepared to take torts cases from all over the world.
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Courts have already restricted the ability of lawyers to bring class actions over toxic torts, cigarettes and asbestos, on the grounds the claims are too individual to be decided in a bunch.
Whether used by consumers, employees, investors, or people injured by toxic torts, class actions serve as a potent weapon for plaintiffs as they pool together their claims and resources against a company.
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Critics say the law was intended to allow ambassadors of foreign countries to sue over acts committed against them in the U.S., not torts committed by other countries on their own soil.
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Mass Torts' rock-star-style center of attention is Papantonio.
The courts may eventually address some of the access and usage issues in the context of existing common law and statutory privacy torts, but this is a long process developed on a case by case basis.
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Depending upon your viewpoint, the grandly named Mass Torts Made Perfect, a recent confab of plaintiff lawyers in Las Vegas, (1) illustrates America's greatness as a nation with the rule of law or (2) shows the appalling consequences of deep-pockets liability.
Last May 24, the New York Times did something extraordinary: On the front page, the paper not only ran a photo of a Massachusetts woman in flagrante delicto committing multiple federal and state felonies and civil torts, but also identified her and the scene of the crime.
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