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• So What Should the Law Do About Jury Variability?

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  In my previous post pointing readers to Tim Lyttons thought provoking post on TortsProfBlog, I neglected to mention our own Byron Stiers work on the same issue. Interested readers might look to his piece, Jackpot Justice available on SSRN. Here...
  1 week ago

• Around the Web

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  Dan Levine, Pair of Plaintiffs Lawyers May Face Different Fates in 9th Circuit Disciplinary Action, The Recorder (discussing disciplinary action in Nicaraguan pesticides case). Francis E. McGovern (Duke), The Second Generation of Dispute System Design: Reoccurring Problems and Potential Solutions,...
  1 week ago

• Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  Richard Nagareda has just posted "Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation" on SSRN. I saw him present this piece at NYU and it is worth reading. I always enjoy Nagaredas work and this is no exception. The Article does a good...
  1 week ago

• Issacharoff & Klonoff on the Mass Tort Settlements

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  Samuel Issacharoff (NYU) & Robert Klonoff (Lewis & Clark) have just posted "The Public Value of Settlement" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article, part of a symposium honoring the 25th anniversary of Owen Fiss’s Against Settlement, takes issue...
  2 weeks ago

• Gilles on Consumer Class Actions

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  We all know judges are hostile to mass tort class actions, but Myriam Gilles (Cardozo) argues that consumer class actions are also suffering the brunt of judicial hostility in an article with the excellent title "Class Dismissed: Contemporary Judicial Hostility...
  2 weeks ago

• Securities Law - Global Claiming - Are US Judgments Actually Binding

  
  GlobalTort — Authority: 425
  So, where and when are US tort and securities judgments binding on persons who live outside the US, and why should does it matter? Lets start with the latter question - why does it matter. Suppose, for example, a US bankrupcty court purports to enter a global injunction that bars future asbestos claims that anyone in ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 419
  My new paper, The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements, is now available on SSRN. I presented it at last weeks symposium in Kansas on "Aggregate Justice: Perspectives Ten Years After Amchem and Ortiz." The theme of the conference got me thinking...
  3 weeks ago

• Chapter 11 in Hong Kong ? What Would They Do With Mass Tort Claims ?

  
  GlobalTort — Authority: 425
  Here is an AmLaw article about the apparently fairly real possibility of chapter 11 type legislation in Hong Kong. This is getting ahead of the game, but it does provide an opportunity to pause and think about what Hong Kong or other sovereigns might use as an approach to corporate failures caused by mass tort claims. ...
  3 weeks ago

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