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Beware of Doug

…if you say, for example, that we’ve offered a health care plan You know, if I’m told, for example, that the solution to dealing with health care costs is tort

More on freshwater economics

…as intuitively appropriate self-interest rationales–not just why markets are important, but also how tort law should work, and contracts–efficient breaches are fine, even if you do break your solemn word–,…

Stephen Moore Looks at Mississippi

…the national average of 5.2%. Mississippi tort reform is making the poor richer, and the rich lawyers less fabulously rich. Most people would have avoided writing this article. Kudos to…

One Ring, to rule them all

…Safety Administration proposals for stronger roofs. Plaintiffs’ attorneys call it “silent tort reform.” But it’s part of tension existing since the nation’s founding: conflict between state and federal law. If…

Pinochio becomes a real boy?

…civil tort plaintiffs had in suing Ford for failing to spend $13 per car to strengthen a gas tank known to be vulnerable to rear- end collisions, few learn that,…

The Ownership Society

…is to “defund the left,” which includes relatively well-known proposals like tort reform to get rid of the trial lawyers and contracting out government jobs to get rid of public…

VP Debate Live Bloggin’

…about the need for tort reform. Edwards replies with a proposal for a review panel (to keep frivolous cases out of the courts) and his story of Valerie Lakey. Points…