The trial in Manhattan is seeking to reform the practice of stop, question and frisk, a contentious law enforcement tactic, and lawyers for the plaintiffs are seeking a court-appointment monitor to oversee the changes.
Health reform outlaws that practice for new health plans as well as grandfathered group plans.
But the worst problem for Mr Raffarin is that reform will in practice be painful for everyone, including those who approve of it in theory.
The results get even more interesting when you break down those who were supportive or opposed to the health care reform law by medical practice types.
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Another Calgarian, Ralph Klein, though a Conservative, as premier of Alberta since 1993 was the first to put Reform's ideas into practice, slashing spending on health and education and privatising many government services.
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Congress passed the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act to halt the abusive practice of paying kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities cases, which sent former top plaintiff lawyers Bill Lerach and Mel Weiss to jail.
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Supporting Lords reform in principle but holding it up in practice might become hard for Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, to explain.
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Lerach needs such allies to maintain control of securities class actions under the 1995 reform law, which was designed to end the practice of using figurehead plaintiffs to mount nuisance suits that mostly enriched plaintiff lawyers.
As the Senate in Brazil debates reform of abortion laws, the body that regulates medical practice has for the first time backed the legalisation of abortion on request.
There's legislation on parallel legal reform on the Scottish statute book, but it's taking a long time to come into practice.
Another insurance reform is making sure that insurance companies can't drop you when you get sick, which is a practice, unfortunately, that happens to a lot of people.
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