All Posts Tagged With: "trial lawyers"
How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process
If you want money, one way of getting it is to produce and trade with others who desire what you have to sell. Sociologist Franz Oppenheimer famously called that the “economic means” of obtaining what one wants. Alas, many people prefer another way of getting money, namely, the use of force and/or threats to compel [...]
13Jul2010 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Money Lawyers: The No-Holds-Barred World of Today’s Richest and Most Powerful Lawyers
By Joseph C. Goulden Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster
1Apr2007 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedDos and Don’ts of Tort Reform
Five years ago a Florida jury somehow conjured up punitive damages of $145 billion for a class of tobacco plaintiffs. Two years later a California jury recommended a $28 billion treasure trove for a single claimant. And in 1998 four major cigarette companies agreed to the grandmother of all awards—a quarter-trillion-dollar settlement to reimburse the [...]
1May2005 | Robert A. Levy | 1 comment | ContinuedHow California’s Consumer Laws Legalize Extortion
Barry Zanck, owner of a small mortgage company in Newport Beach, California, says he had never had a complaint lodged against his business. So he was shocked when he was named, along with a dozen other mortgage-related companies, in lawsuits filed last year by a prominent southern California law firm. “The unlawful, unfair and fraudulent [...]
1May2003 | Steven Greenhut | 2 comments | ContinuedI Never Dream of Nicotine
Ted Roberts is a freelance writer in Huntsville, Alabama. Such is the intensity of tobacco litigation that every day somewhere in this great nation there’s a judge, lawyer, or juror pondering the evils of the weed. The sun never sets on tobacco litigation. Tobacco is addictive, say the trial lawyers. All I know is that [...]
1May2003 | Ted Roberts | 0 comments | ContinuedLawyers Run Amok
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. As Washington, D.C., prepared for the descent of thousands of anti-globalization protesters last fall, George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf proposed deploying the ultimate weapon: trial lawyers. Hit the demonstrators with a [...]
1Apr2003 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedDictatorship of Lawyers
James Bovard is the author of Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (St. Martin’s Press). Law is no longer an impediment to legalized robbery. In area after area, lawyers have achieved court rulings that subvert due process and the rule of law. Unfortunately, while this trend has [...]
1Apr2001 | James Bovard | 5 comments | ContinuedRegulators: The New Socialists
Ralph Reiland, a scholar associated with the Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa., is an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris College and owner of Amel’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh. Socialism in the traditional sense—government ownership of the means of production and state control of jobs and incomes—is dead. From Leningrad to Managua, those who thought [...]
1Feb1998 | Ralph R. Reiland | 0 comments | Continued-
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