Perspective
Oct. 8, 2009
Legal Shakedown Is Back
Senator Tom Harman says the California Supreme Court's decision in the In re Tobacco II Cases is disconnected from the state's economic crisis.
LITIGATION
By Tom HarmanIn California, some 1.4 million lawsuits are filed each year. Businesses and local governments are many times the targets in these suits and one thing is certain, they ultimately cost all of us a lot of money. A recent Wall Street Journal piece poked fun at an Oklahoma attorney who sent out an alert warning his fellow plaintiff attorneys to file their lawsuits quickly - before newly passed tort reforms limiting ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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