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Litigation & Trial
“Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act” Aims To Make Litigation More Expensive
Late last week, when I heard that the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act,” a certain Mark Twain quote came to mind: “Suppose you were an…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Eisenberg on Long-Term Empirical Trends in Employment Litigation
Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell), who has been studying trends in civil rights and employment litigation for nearly thirty years, has just posted on SSRN his article Four Decades of Federal Civil…
TortsProf Blog
House Passes “Lawsuit Abuse” Bill
As I mentioned, last week, the U.S. House was taking up the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act. The ABA Journal reports that the bill passed the House on Thursday. The bill reinstates…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Four Decades of Federal Civil Rights Litigation
The title of this post comes from this paper detailing the relatively low success rates of constitutional tort and employment discrimination cases as compared to traditional tort and contract cases.…
Securities Law Prof Blog
This Week in Securities Litigation
The SEC Actions Blog has compiled This Week in Securities Litigation.
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY'S FEES
Costs: $107,292.56 Costs Award Reversed Based On 2005 Final Judgment Providing Each Side Bears Own Costs
Lower Court Jurist Understandably Made a Mistake Given “Bleak House” Type of Litigation; Unopposed Motion Became Opposed Through Invited Error. Even the trial court in Pemstein v. Pemstein, Case No.…
Mass Tort Defense
Report Issued on “New Lawsuit Ecosystem”
By Sean Wajert
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform has released a report examining the developing lawsuit “ecosystem” and areas of li
Class Action & Mass Torts
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Issues A Must Read Report On “The New Lawsuit Ecosystem”
By Gerald L. Maatman Jr. and Howard M. Wexler On October 30, 2013 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a Report entitled “The New Lawsuit Ecosystem: Trends, Targets and Players”…
Employment Law Worldview
Ignoring mediation offer in the UK leads to costs blow
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer" said boxing great Muhammad Ali, but the Court of Appeal has this month delivered a robust right hook to…
China Law Vision
To Go to Arbitration or Litigation in Subrogation Cases?
By AnJie Broad
Authored by Dr. Zhan Hao (zhanhao@anjielaw.com) One of the questions in China is whether an insurer should go to arbitration or litigation in subrogation cases. 1. The contradiction between bulks of insurance…