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06.08.2009 9:00 pm

Efforts to buy justice should be thwarted

It’s right out of a John Grisham novel:

A company owned by a coal tycoon is sued for illegally destroying a rival business — and gets whacked by a jury. The verdict comes in at $50 million, plus punitive damages. When the case…

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12.22.2008 9:00 pm

Court reform or trademarked spin?

A few years ago, a group calling itself the American Tort Reform Foundation — a business trade association working to limit the power of juries to award damages against business and industry — came up with an ingenious gimmick: The…

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