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Tort Liability For Asbestos Removal Costs, Richard C. Ausness
Tort Liability For Asbestos Removal Costs, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
During the past twenty years, Congress and the general public have become increasingly aware of the health hazards caused by exposure to toxic substances. Consequently, Congress has enacted statutes, such as CERCLA, requiring parties who are responsible for toxic waste to clean up the toxic waste sites and to reduce the level of toxic chemicals in the environment. Asbestos is one toxic substance that government has targeted in particular. The federal government and many states have enacted laws requiring asbestos-containing materials to be segregated or removed from schools and public buildings.
Even when government regulations do not mandate specific abatement …
Individual And Institutional Responsibility: A Vision For Comparative Fault In Products Liability, Mary J. Davis
Individual And Institutional Responsibility: A Vision For Comparative Fault In Products Liability, Mary J. Davis
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Since the adoption of strict products liability over the last thirty years, two problems of scope have received the most attention: how to define product defectiveness to which the liability attaches, and how to limit the potentially limitless liability through defenses. Much like the industries of the nineteenth century, product liability defendants of the twentieth century turned to the plaintiff's conduct as a main line of defense. Blaming the victim has historically been a powerful tool for tort defendants to evade responsibility for their conduct. This Article proposes that the defenses based on victim fault that have evolved in our …