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A Warning About Litigant-Funded Research in Supreme Court Cases

By Rick Hasen

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I was struck by footnote 17 of Justice Souter's opinion in the Exxon case issued today: The Court is aware of a body of literature running parallel to anecdotal reports, examining the predictability of punitive awards by conducting numerous "mock...

Full post as published by Election Law on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).

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