Litigation
Dec. 30, 2010
Dollars and Cutting to Their Chase
Now is a good time to advance ideas to improve the administration of justice. By John H. Sullivan of the Civil Justice Association of California.
Hopes of the nation's plaintiffs' bar soared when the 2008 election delivered a president and Congress they saw aligned with their jackpot justice agenda. Expectations were quickly rewarded when the president signed the so-called Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, loosening a tight federal statute of limitations for gender-based wage discrimination claims.
That was but one item on the plaintiffs' bar wish list. The lawyers so...
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