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: Day on TortsRace and Damages
By John A. Day
Here is a fascinating article from the New York Law Journal about an opinion by Judge Jack B. Weinstein objecting to a defendant's use of race-based statistics on life expectancy to reduce a damage award in a quadriplegia case.
Full post as published by Day on Torts on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).
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