Opinion
-
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-10
Opinion -Asbestos: Stampeding to the Exits In late September, all but two dozen of the 250 companies being sued in an 8,000-plaintiff asbestos trial in West Virginia settled out of court. -
Du Bois and Washington
Opinion -I read with deep interest the recent article “W.E.B. Du Bois: Wellspring of American Negroes’ Dilemma?” by Archon Theadore M. Pryor of Kappa Boulé (The Boulé Journal, 64:1, Spring 2002). -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-9
Opinion -Canadian Hookers to Sue Hollywood for Lost Wages A group representing Vancouver prostitutes, beggars, and drug addicts is threatening to sue 30 movie and television production companies for interrupting their illicit businesses. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-8
Opinion -Udder Madness Reversing a lower court decision, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled in July after three vehicles consecutively hit a Black Angus cow wandering on a state highway, the only person who could be sued for the two deaths that occurred in car #3 -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-7
Opinion -Tick, Tick, Tick, Mr. Motley A few months ago we noted that famed plaintiffs’ attorney Ron Motley had vowed in October 1999 to bring the former lead paint industry “to its knees” within three years or he would give them his 120-foot yacht. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-6
Opinion -He’s Demanding a Lifetime Subscription to Penthouse A man who uses a wheelchair has sued a Florida strip club because an area where private lap dances are performed is up a flight of stairs and inaccessible to him. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-5
Opinion -Win Big! Lie in Front of a Train The New York Times reports a New York City woman was awarded $14.1 million by a state supreme court jury after she was hit by a subway train. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-4
Opinion -Ronald McDonald on Trial The tobacco industry warned for years that legal precedents set in lawsuits against it would lead to class action suits against other legal products. Critics scoffed, but the prediction is fast coming true. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-3
Opinion -Acne Medication Made Al Qaeda Wannabe Do It The family of the 15-year-old boy who crashed a single-engine plane into a Tampa high-rise, Al Qaeda style, has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the maker of an acne medication that had been prescribed -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-2
Opinion -A Crushing Burden “The tort crisis,” writes Michael Freedman in the cover story of the May 13 issue of Forbes, “is really tomorrow’s news. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-1
Opinion -Six Months to Go and Counting In October 1999, notorious asbestos and tobacco plaintiffs’ attorney Ron Motley boasted to The Dallas Morning News that if he failed to bring the lead paint industry -- which he had just sued in Rhode Island -- “to its -
Supreme Court Narrows Reach of ADA
Opinion -On January 8, 2002, the United States Supreme Court reached a landmark decision in the ongoing “debate over definitions” that is the Americans with Disabilities Act. In Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc., v. -
For Lawyers, Politics Is Really, Really Hard
Opinion -Laws, made through the difficult, deliberative process of political compromise, inspired Otto von Bismarck's now-famous remark: "Laws are like sausages: It is better not to see them being made. -
Beyond Affirmative Action
Opinion -The angry affirmative-action dispute between the U.S. -
Against the Tide
Opinion -After Governor Edgar nominated black conservative Lee H. -
Black Conservative Wins State Panel Seat
Opinion -SPRINGFIELD--A conservative Burr Ridge executive criticized for his views against affirmative action will take a seat on the state community colleges board despite a stormy Senate confirmation. Though Senate Republicans favored Gov. -
Affirmative-Action Foe Calls Off Repeal Bill for More Study
Opinion -SPRINGFIELD--The conservative Republican lawmaker who last spring called for the repeal of affirmative action programs in Illinois now says the matter needs more study. Sen. -
Educator Booker T. Washington: Learning, Teaching that Success Comes from Hard Work
Opinion -His is a truly American story. In 1881, Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. From there he would rise to become the most powerful black man in America. But Washington’s roots were humble.