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    Civil Justice Reform

    • NLRB Overreach Imperils Jobs and Investment
    • SCOTUS Meets Civil Justice Issues
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    NLRB Overreach Imperils Jobs and Investment

    The NLRB’s choice to issue a complaint about Boeing’s decision to relocate a facility from Washington to South Carolina represents an unbridled, unauthorized, and unlawful expansion of the regulatory power of an executive agency. Read More.

    SCOTUS Meets Civil Justice Issues

    There may have been more civil justice and tort related cases decided this Term than any other in Supreme Court history. An important thread that stitches almost all of the cases together is that each of them could be modified by Congress. Read More.

    Promoting General Welfare

    President-elect Obama can keep his campaign pledge to make America's civil justice system work for all Americans by promoting a regulatory and business landscape where arbitration is advocated over litigation. Watch More.

    Tort Reform in the States

    Gov. Haley Barbour relates his experiences in implementing comprehensive tort reform, restoring balance for plaintiffs and defendants, and encouraging economic growth. Watch Here.

    Health Care and Medical Malpractice Reform

    While victims of medical malpractice should have access to the courts, state laws have encouraged inefficient litigation that enriches trial lawyers at the expense of doctors and patients. Watch Here.

    Abusive litigation is one of the most harmful strains on our economy. Tort law should compensate victims and deter harmful events as efficiently as possible. Through reform, we can simultaneously protect, improve, and make our civil justice system more efficient and bring greater fairness and predictability to market participants and consumers.

    Introduction to the Research

    • Judicial Nullification in Georgia: Overriding Medical Malpractice Reform and Federal Law to Reward the Trial Bar
    • A Case Study in Judicial Nullification: Medical Malpractice Reform in Illinois
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      Senior Legal Fellow / Manager, Civil Justice Reform Initiative

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