There is a growing judicial and legislative consensus that American courts can go after foreign thugs who come to the United States.

ECONOMIST: The law

It is the legislative branch and not the courts that is the proper institution for answering these questions.

FORBES: "Natural" Selection: Survival of the Litigious

Two flagrant examples are in Ohio and Illinois, where the states' supreme courts nullified major legislative reforms of tort law.

FORBES: Fact and Comment