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Litigation

Mar. 3, 2007

California Should Follow Texas in Asbestos Cases

Forum Column - By Joe Nixon - California can learn a few things from Texas about keeping out frivolous asbestos lawsuits, writes a former Texas legislator.

FORUM COLUMN

By Joe Nixon
     
      From football to lawmaking, Texans think everything they do is bigger and better. They even boast that their capitol is taller than the one in Washington, D.C. But when it came to fixing their civil-justice system, Texans looked to California for how to do it right.
      In Texas, doctors were being sued out of business, leaving the...

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