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BL
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964266
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b718636
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| Main Entry
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Nagareda, Richard A.
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| Title & Author
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Mass torts in a world of settlement /\ Richard A. Nagareda.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xx, 324 pages)
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| ISBN
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0226567621
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: 9780226567624
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0226567605
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9780226567600
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-317) and index.
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| Contents
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Origins -- The development of a mass tort -- Regulating development indirectly -- Making and enforcing a grid -- The rise and fall of the mass tort class settlement -- Public legislation and private contracts -- Mandatory class actions revisited -- Maximizing or minimizing opt-outs -- Bankruptcy transformed -- Government as plaintiff -- Leveraging conflicts of interest -- Administering the leveraging proposal.
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| Abstract
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The traditional definition of torts involves bizarre, idiosyncratic events where a single plaintiff with a physical impairment sues the specific defendant he believes to have wrongfully caused that malady. Yet public attention has focused increasingly on mass personal-injury lawsuits over asbestos, cigarettes, guns, the diet drug fen-phen, breast implants, and, most recently, Vioxx. Richard A. Nagareda's 'Mass Torts in a World of Settlement' is the first attempt to analyze the lawyer's role in this world of high-stakes, multibillion-dollar litigation.
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Class actions (Civil procedure)-- United States.
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Complex litigation-- United States.
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Torts-- United States.
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Class actions (Civil procedure)
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Complex litigation.
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LAW-- Administrative Law Regulatory Practice.
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Torts.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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346.7303
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| LC Classification
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KF1250.N34 2007eb
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