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Brownfields Of Dreams In The Old Dominion: Redeveloping Brownfields In Virginia, Philip Carter Strother Apr 2000

Brownfields Of Dreams In The Old Dominion: Redeveloping Brownfields In Virginia, Philip Carter Strother

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Florida's Tort Reform Act: Keeping The Faith With The Promise Of Hoffman V. Jones, George N. Meros, Jr., Chanta Hundley Jan 2000

Florida's Tort Reform Act: Keeping The Faith With The Promise Of Hoffman V. Jones, George N. Meros, Jr., Chanta Hundley

Florida State University Law Review

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Governments, Citizens, And Injurious Industries, Hanoch Dagan, James J. White Jan 2000

Governments, Citizens, And Injurious Industries, Hanoch Dagan, James J. White

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In this Article, Professors Hanoch Dagan and James White study the most recent challenge raised by mass torts litigation: the interference of governments with the bilateral relationship between citizens and injurious industries. Using the tobacco settlement as their case study, Dagan and White explore the important benefits and the grave dangers of recognizing governments' entitlement to reimbursement for costs they have incurred in preventing or ameliorating their citizens' injuries. They further demonstrate that the current law can help capture these benefits and guard against the entailing risks, showing how subrogation law can serve as the legal foundation of the governments' …