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66.249.71.237 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=85453 us_law_blawgs.php PRI 2008 Tort Liability Index Released
The Pacific Research Institute has released its 2008 Tort Liability Index [pdf]. The report "measures the best and worst tort systems in America." The top 5 "best" states were, in order: North Dakota, Alaska, North Carolina, Iowa and Virginia...

66.249.71.237 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=85453 us_law_blawgs.php 2008 Pacific Research Institute Study Finds Florida Has Worst Tort System
A study by a "distinguished conservative leader in public policy" found that, among all 50 states, Florida has the worst tort system. The Pacific Research Institute's lengthy 2008 U...

66.249.71.237 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=85453 us_law_blawgs.php Libya pact under fire
Illustrating one of the problems with opening the courts to tort litigation over offenses by foreign states, even the worst such states: by encouraging interests to crystallize around the litigation, they make it harder to achieve government-to-government diplomatic resolutions intended...

66.249.71.237 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=85453 us_law_blawgs.php Klass on Experiments in Tort Law
Alexandra Klass (Minnesota) has posted Tort Experiments in the Laboratories of Democracy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article considers the broad range of tort experiments states have undertaken in recent years as well as the changing attitudes of...

66.249.71.237 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=85453 us_law_blawgs.php Klass on Tort Experiments
Alexandra B. Klass (University of Minnesota Law School) has posted Tort Experiments in the Laboratories of Democracy (William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 50, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This Article considers the broad range of tort experiments states...

66.249.71.237 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=85453 us_law_blawgs.php "The Pop Tort"
Eric Turkewitz alerts us to a new blog, The Pop Tort. The Pop Tort is run by staffers at the Center for Justice & Democracy, which in turn is a non-profit "consumer organization...working round-the-clock to fight [the tort reform] movement....