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Remedies And The Supreme Court's October 2007 Term, Steven H. Steinglass Sep 2008

Remedies And The Supreme Court's October 2007 Term, Steven H. Steinglass

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For this third annual review of Supreme Court decisions, I have identified three cases from very different areas all of which involve the remedies available for violations of federal law. These cases deal with the following issues: (a) federal remedies for state violations of federal labor policy (Chamber of Commerce); (b) state remedies for violations of the federal Bill of Rights (Danforth) and (c) federal common law standards for awarding punitive damages (Exxon Shipping).


Attempted Cap On Punitive Damages Continues To Spark Debate, Susan J. Becker Jan 1996

Attempted Cap On Punitive Damages Continues To Spark Debate, Susan J. Becker

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The debate surrounding federal product liability law has not been silenced by recent compromises reached by the House and Senate regarding appropriate boundaries for such laws. To the contrary, President Clinton's threatened veto of Congress's Common Sense Product Liability Reform Act of 1996 and continued opposition by the ABA Section of Litigation and other groups to parts of the Act guarantee that the 20-year-old debate will continue to rage.