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Litigation
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TortsProf Blog
Medical Malpractice: Actors, Flaws, and Reform (III)
Last week, I started this series on medical malpractice litigation here and here. This week, I continue with the flaws.II. Flaws (cont.)Delay …
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Judicial Hellholes, Lawsuit Climates, and Bad Social Science …
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Prof. Elizabeth Thornburg recently posted her article, Judicial Hellholes, Lawsuit Climates, and Bad Social Sciences: Lessons from West Virginia on SSRN. The abstract of the article, which has been accepted…
Drug & Device Law
If I Could Put Fish In A Barrel
By Bexis
We like defense wins.(Film at 11.)And we like to contribute to defense wins, even when we're not directly involved in the cases.(That's one reason why we fritter away our lives…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Federal Litigation v. ADR
Lisa Bingham (Indiana - Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs) (photo above), Tina Nabatchi (Syracuse), Jeffrey Senger (Dep't Justice), and Michael Jackman (Indiana - Bloomington School of Public &…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Provides Practical Guidance on “Inadvertent Waiver of Attorney/Client Privilege” and “Avoiding a Motion to Compel”
In re Kent County Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances Litigation Consolidated, (Del. Ch., April 18, 2008), read opinion here. The purpose of this post is to provide excerpts on discovery issues listed…
ContractsProf Blog
Girls Gone Litigious?!?
What do you get when you cross Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the woman with whom former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer allegedly had some very expensive private encounters, with the Girls…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Opinion of Judge Freedman on Motion to Dismiss
She dismisses the claims against CC Media and Clear Channel: Download helen_e_freedman1.pdf
TortsProf Blog
Lawsuit Climate 2008
The Institute for Legal Reform has released its annual ranking of the civil litigation systems in the fifty states. The top five states, in order, are Delaware, Nebraska, Maine, Indiana…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Empirical Study of Employment Discrimination Litigation
Laura Beth Nielsen (American Bar Found. & Northwestern Sociology), Robert Nelson (Northwestern Law & Sociology), and Ryon Lancaster (Chicago Sociology) have just posted on SSRN their important new empirical study…
The Contingency
Streamlining and Expediting Litigation
Here Blawgletter sits on a Super 80 jetliner. The flight crew will soon -- if the FAA doesn't order a new inspection of the wire harnesses in the landing gear…