Trial

Issue Date: 03/01/2007

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1. Turning the tables.(President's page) During his recent campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in Iowa's First Congressional District, AAJ member Bruce Braley frequently found himself vilified as a ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 2. Industries seek immunity in state legislatures. Each year, special-interest groups introduce a host of immunity bills in statehouses around the country to protect industries from liability for the harm they cause. (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 3. Fight for Justice Campaign takes message to the media. AAJ's Fight for Justice Communications Campaign continues to spread a powerful message about the work that trial lawyers do confronting those who support civil justice ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 4. New Paxil suits allege birth defect risk. The popular antidepressant Paxil, already the subject of litigation on suicide and withdrawal issues, has recently become the focus of personal injury, products liability, and ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 5. Oklahoma justices reject affidavit requirement in med-mal cases. In an 8-1 decision, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that a 2003 law requiring medical malpractice plaintiffs to file expert witness affidavits of merit ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 6. Lawyers focus on lens solution lawsuits. A product with a unique formula and a specific use whose maker kept it on the market while user reports of injury mounted--it's an old ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 7. Why preemption proponents are wrong: corporate defendants' claim that... The basic idea of federal preemption is easily stated: It is a constitutionally mandated principle that demands that federal law trumps state law when the ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 8. Preemption still shielding tobacco companies from liability. The Department of Justice sued Philip Morris and other major tobacco companies in federal court in the late 1990s for violating the RICO statute by ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 9. Focus on facts to defeat preemption: while preemption is primarily a... Until recently, a motion to dismiss on federal preemption grounds was rare. But efforts by the Bush administration to push preemption as a way of ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 10. A view from the states on stealth tort 'reform': the Bush... The Bush administration's recent attempts to preempt state law by inserting pro-preemption language in federal agency rules has been characterized as back-door tort "reform." The ... (PREMIUM PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
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