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As long as state judges allow juries to punish out-of-state corporate defendants to enrich individual local plaintiffs, tort law will be defiled. As long as that happens, in the author's opinion, the Supreme Court must continue to intervene. Whether it be by striking down punitive damages or by rejecting standardless "pain and suffering" awards, the Court will have to uphold the fact that private ordering is the domain of civil litigation, while public ordering requires a slew of constitutional protections. -
How can we ask candidates to run for judicial office and then prohibit them from announcing their views on disputed issues? On the other hand, doesn't the state have a compelling interest in maintaining the integrity of its judiciary for the benefit of the parties who come before it? A panel discusses these questions before the Supreme Court's decision in Republican Party of Minnesota v. Kelly. -
Many critics of Justice Scalia's judicial philosophy probably would agree with his suggestion that the words "morals" and "legislation" will likely be seen together less and less frequently in current events, and wish that coupling good riddance. Should they, however? And what should conservatives think of such a development? -
A fundamental examination of the way in which the legal profession is regulated and an attempt to develop a new framework that takes into account the broad and diverse nature of lawyers, clients and the practice of law -
Enormous wealth transfers to trial lawyers that have taken place in the context of class action, tobacco, and other suits brought by or on behalf of government entities are coming under new critical legal scrutiny. -
A panel discussion about when free speech and ethical standards collide, with a focus on the judiciary, elections of state judges, the confirmation procedures for federal nominees, and other issues relevant to the judiciary -
A description of the practice of attorney fee litigation in the class action context, and a discussion of the author's experience as an objector. -
Over the last twenty years a new form of regulation has appeared that does not include due process guarantees and some political accountability: regulation by litigation. -
An overview of the legal and policy issues raised by California's request for a waiver of federal preemption of its new greenhouse gas emission regulations. -
The learned intermediary doctrine has been adopted by state courts in thirty-nine states and by the District of Columbia, but West Virginia's highest court, in State ex rel. Johnson & Johnson Corp. v. Karl, has parted company with the states that have judicially recognized this doctrine.