| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 324 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-317) and index. |
| Contents |
Origins -- The development of a mass tort -- Regulating development indirectly -- Making and enforcing a grid -- The rise and fall of the mass tort class settlement -- Public legislation and private contracts -- Mandatory class actions revisited -- Maximizing or minimizing opt-outs -- Bankruptcy transformed -- Government as plaintiff -- Leveraging conflicts of interest -- Administering the leveraging proposal. |
| Summary |
The traditional definition of torts involves bizarre, idiosyncratic events where a single plaintiff with a physical impairment sues the specific defendant he believes to have wrongfully caused that malady. Yet public attention has focused increasingly on mass personal-injury lawsuits over asbestos, cigarettes, guns, the diet drug fen-phen, breast implants, and, most recently, Vioxx. Richard A. Nagareda's 'Mass Torts in a World of Settlement' is the first attempt to analyze the lawyer's role in this world of high-stakes, multibillion-dollar litigation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Torts -- United States.
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Torts. |
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United States. |
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Class actions (Civil procedure) -- United States.
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Class actions (Civil procedure) |
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Complex litigation -- United States.
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Complex litigation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nagareda, Richard A. Mass torts in a world of settlement. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007 9780226567600 0226567605 (DLC) 2006037824 (OCoLC)76262183 |
| ISBN |
9780226567624 (electronic book) |
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0226567621 (electronic book) |
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9780226567600 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226567605 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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