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Labor/Employment

Mar. 7, 2006

Gridlock Again on Asbestos

WASHINGTON - There are some things money can't buy. Asbestos litigation reform, apparently, is one of them. Big business has spent millions of dollars over the years lobbying Congress to put an end to a decades-long flood of lawsuits brought by industrial workers who claim they were sickened or killed by exposure to cancer-causing asbestos.

By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - There are some things money can't buy.
        Asbestos litigation reform, apparently, is one of them.
    &n...

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