Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries: Government Litigation as Public Health Prescription Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2010-04-05
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0472117149
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries pdf
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"The topic, how tort law evolved over time into a system that allowed, for a moment at least, a parens patriae form of massive litigation against corporations, is exceedingly interesting and important. Gifford's treatment of this topic is highly informative, engaging, insightful, very current, and wise."
---David Owen, Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law, and Director of Tort Law Studies, University of South Carolina In Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries, legal scholar Donald G. Gifford recounts the transformation of tort litigation in response to the challenge posed by victims of 21st-century public health crises who seek compensation from the product manufacturers. Class action litigation promised a strategy for documenting collective harm, but an increasingly conservative judicial and political climate limited this strategy. Then, in 1995, Mississippi attorney general Mike Moore initiated a parens patriae action on behalf of the state against cigarette manufacture Download Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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