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Manageability Of Notice And Damage Calculation In Consumer Class Actions, Michigan Law Review
Manageability Of Notice And Damage Calculation In Consumer Class Actions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Comment will examine the likelihood that Rule 23, as it has been interpreted since its amendment, will provide a mechanism through which consumers may successfully resolve their grievances. The focus will be on the manageability problems of providing the requisite notice and of devising a method of calculation and distribution of damages.
Due Process And Pollution: The Right To A Remedy, Ferdinand F. Fernandez
Due Process And Pollution: The Right To A Remedy, Ferdinand F. Fernandez
Villanova Law Review
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Measuring Damages In Survival Actions For Tortious Death , Michael M. Martin
Measuring Damages In Survival Actions For Tortious Death , Michael M. Martin
Faculty Scholarship
Survival statutes have been adopted to avoid the effect of common law rules preventing claims for the tortious death of a human being. These statutes give the personal representative such causes of action on behalf of the decedent's estate as the decedent would have had were he still alive. The question the statutes do not answer, however, is the effect of the death of a party on the measure of damages. The Washington Supreme Court's decision in Warner v. McCaughan illustrates the problem. Warner arose out of the death of a twenty-one year old college student. Alleging that the death …