Individual Justice in Mass Tort Litigation: The Effect of Class Actions, Consolidations, and Other Multiparty Devices

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Northwestern University Press, 1995 - 367 من الصفحات
One of the most prominent of contemporary jurists, Judge Jack B. Weinstein has influenced substantive and procedural aspects of the law of mass tort litigation. He has helped create efficient yet compassionate solutions to problems resulting from Vietnam veterans' exposure to Agent Orange and to the health hazards associated with asbestos and DES.
 

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CHAPTER
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CHAPTER
5
CHAPTER
7
The Laws Reaction to Disasters
15
A Types of Disasters
16
Clear CauseMultiple EventsInjuries Nonproximate in Place
17
Unclear CauseMultiple EventsInjuries Nonproximate in Time and Place
18
B Jurisdictions Implicated
19
Compensation Schemes and Legislated Limits on Liability
28
Claims Commissions
30
Hybrid GovernmentSponsored Protection Plans
31
Specialized Courts
32
General Problems of Ethics in Modern Cases
39
Communitarian and Communicatarian Ethics
46
Ethics of Lawyers
53
B Conflicts of Interest
61

International
20
Single Forum
21
Support to Trier
22
Procedural Tools and Models
23
Class Actions
26
Attorney CooperationSpecialists and Lead Attorneys
27
E Aggregate Settlements
74
Speaking to the Community
100
CHAPTER 7
115
Equitable Powers of Courts to Adapt to Modern Mass Torts
123
CHAPTER 10
163
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