Ted Frank (with co-author Ohio State lawprof Sarah Rudolph Cole) has a new paper out at AEI on the hot subject, likely to be the target of a push by litigation advocates in Congress next year. Summary: In 2007, the...

The Fulton County Daily Reporter (via law.com) has an interesting story on the just-ended successful corporate class action against Coca-Cola (which was found to have committed fraud on the market by inflating its income. Plaintiffs may have succeeded, but their...

Having written this week (here, here, here, here and here) on the various public policy aspects of the tobacco master settlement agreement 10 years after its enactment, we now get to perhaps the most important and lasting consequences of the...

The insurance consulting organization, per its press release, has issued its 2008 report, which measures tort costs for 2007 and shows trends dating back as far as 1950. It indicates that the cost of the liability insurance sector of the...

Big news in asbestos: Wayne County, Mich. judge throws out medical opinions by prolific Lansing internist Michael Kelly [Free Press, earlier] Law is what they say it is dept.: Oklahoma high court tosses out another chunk of liability reform,...

Most states have commissions which evaluate the performance of state judges. Would it be a good idea to institute similar performance review of federal judges? For judicial elections, are campaign contribution/spending...

Today's WSJ has an op-ed by U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey that addresses similar issues to the speech he was delivering last night at the Federalist Society's Annual Lawyers' Convention...

The Politico reports on a curious addition to the Obama transition personnel questionnaire for potential appointees to the new Administration....

Why let the Norm Coleman and Al Franken campaigns have all the fun. Thanks to Minnesota Public Radio, you can look at pictures of actual ballots cast in the Minnesota...

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