Vol. 69 No. 4, October 2002
Index
- Corporate Counsel College builds alliances.
- Calendar of legal organization meetings.
- International association of defense counsel tenets of professionalism.
- American Bar Association oks multijurisdictional practice.
- Tort law reform steaming in Australia.
- Implementing the 9/11 victim compensation fund: two steps forward, one step back: while the statute establishing the fund seeks full compensation for victims, the regulations are subject to challenge for failing that mandate in some respects.
- Federal class action reform in the United States: past and future and where next? If the past is prologue, then there will be many proposals, some tinkering, some substantive, some legislative, to change class action practice.
- Toxicogenomics: new chapter in causation and exposure in toxic tort litigation: this new science has the potential to identify biological clues to disease, and both plaintiffs and defendants will strive to use it to their advantages.
- What punitive damages message is the U.S. Supreme Court Sending? Gore's three factors are in place, but they are only guideposts along the way to determining whether a punitive award is constitutionally infirm.
- Life after SLUSA: what is the fate of holding claims? The pre-emptive force of the 1998 legislation should not upset the long-held balance in the U.S. federal system by trumping all state actions.
- Suing the bastard boss: personal liability of supervisors for workplace sexual harassment: federal and state civil rights statutes are poor vehicles to reach offending supervisors. Employers themselves should discipline the transgressors.
- Tort of public nuisance in public entity litigation: return to the jungle? In the wake of the tobacco settlement, public entities have seized on this neither warranted nor appropriate action to avoid product liability law.
- Catastrophic building failures: formulating initial strategy and organization: no one expects a building to collapse, but when that happens, counsel representing contractors or design professionals must have plans.
- How experts approach catastrophic structural and building failures: experienced technical experts will be able to meet and overcome many of the obstacles that may tend to impair their investigations.
- Current decisions.
- Conning the IADC Newsletters.
- Reviewing the law reviews.