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The New Front In The Clean Air Wars: Fossil-Fuel Influence Over State Attorneys General- And How It Might Be Checked, Eli Savit
Michigan Law Review
Review of Struggling for Air: Power and the "War On Coal" by Richard L. Revesz and Jack Leinke, and Federalism on Trial: State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America by Paul Nolette.
Slaves As Plaintiffs, Alfred L. Brophy
Slaves As Plaintiffs, Alfred L. Brophy
Michigan Law Review
Review of Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom Before Dred Scott by Lea VanderVelde.
Retaliatory Rico And The Puzzle Of Fraudulent Claiming, Nora Freeman Engstrom
Retaliatory Rico And The Puzzle Of Fraudulent Claiming, Nora Freeman Engstrom
Michigan Law Review
Over the past century, the allegation that the tort liability system incentivizes legal extortion and is chock-full of fraudulent claims has dominated public discussion and prompted lawmakers to ever-more-creatively curtail individuals’ incentives and opportunities to seek redress. Unsatisfied with these conventional efforts, in recent years, at least a dozen corporate defendants have “discovered” a new fraud-fighting tool. They’ve started filing retaliatory RICO suits against plaintiffs and their lawyers and experts, alleging that the initiation of certain non meritorious litigation constitutes racketeering activity— while tort reform advocates have applauded these efforts and exhorted more “courageous” companies to follow suit. Curiously, though, …