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Medtronic, Inc. V. Lohr: Is Federal Pre-Emption A Heartbeat Away From Death Under The Medical Device Amendments?, Mark E. Gelsinger 2012 Pepperdine University

Medtronic, Inc. V. Lohr: Is Federal Pre-Emption A Heartbeat Away From Death Under The Medical Device Amendments?, Mark E. Gelsinger

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Fda Sends Smoke Signals To Big Tobacco: Will The Fda Suffer Backlash, Will Alcohol Be Regulated Next, And Will The Health Of Americans Prevail?, Angela Turriciano 2012 Pepperdine University

The Fda Sends Smoke Signals To Big Tobacco: Will The Fda Suffer Backlash, Will Alcohol Be Regulated Next, And Will The Health Of Americans Prevail?, Angela Turriciano

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Irreconcilable Differences: Why The Doctor-Patient Relationship Is Disintegrating At The Hands Of Health Maintenance Organizations And Wall Street, Mark O. Hiepler, Brian C. Dunn 2012 Pepperdine University

Irreconcilable Differences: Why The Doctor-Patient Relationship Is Disintegrating At The Hands Of Health Maintenance Organizations And Wall Street, Mark O. Hiepler, Brian C. Dunn

Pepperdine Law Review

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Is The United States V. Olin Decision Full Of Sound And Fury Signifying Nothing?: The Future Of Retroactive Liability Of The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, And Liability Act, Kevin J. Slattum 2012 Pepperdine University

Is The United States V. Olin Decision Full Of Sound And Fury Signifying Nothing?: The Future Of Retroactive Liability Of The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, And Liability Act, Kevin J. Slattum

Pepperdine Law Review

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Misapplication Of The Attorney Malpractice Paradigm To Litigation Services: "Suit Within A Suit" Shortcomings Compel Witness Immunity For Experts, Adam J. Myers III 2012 Pepperdine University

Misapplication Of The Attorney Malpractice Paradigm To Litigation Services: "Suit Within A Suit" Shortcomings Compel Witness Immunity For Experts, Adam J. Myers Iii

Pepperdine Law Review

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Fanning An Old Flame: Alienation Of Affections And Criminal Conversation Revisited, Jill Jones 2012 Pepperdine University

Fanning An Old Flame: Alienation Of Affections And Criminal Conversation Revisited, Jill Jones

Pepperdine Law Review

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Cigarette Litigation's Offspring: Assessing Tort Issues Related To Guns, Alcohol, & Other Controversial Products In Light Of The Tobacco Wars , Gary T. Schwartz 2012 Pepperdine University

Cigarette Litigation's Offspring: Assessing Tort Issues Related To Guns, Alcohol, & Other Controversial Products In Light Of The Tobacco Wars , Gary T. Schwartz

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Remoteness Doctrine: A Rationale For A Rational Limit On Tort Liability, Victor E. Schwartz 2012 Pepperdine University

The Remoteness Doctrine: A Rationale For A Rational Limit On Tort Liability, Victor E. Schwartz

Pepperdine Law Review

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Transcript From Beyond Tobacco Symposium, Comments On Hamilton V. Accu-Tek, Denise Dunleavy 2012 Pepperdine University

Transcript From Beyond Tobacco Symposium, Comments On Hamilton V. Accu-Tek, Denise Dunleavy

Pepperdine Law Review

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Economic And Causation Issues In City Suits Against Gun Manufacturers , Frank J. Vandall 2012 Pepperdine University

Economic And Causation Issues In City Suits Against Gun Manufacturers , Frank J. Vandall

Pepperdine Law Review

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Taking Aim: The Impetus Driving Suits Against Gun Manufacturers , Mark Barnes 2012 Pepperdine University

Taking Aim: The Impetus Driving Suits Against Gun Manufacturers , Mark Barnes

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


From Cigarettes To Alcohol: The Next Step In Hedonic Product Liability?, Robert F. Cochran Jr. 2012 Pepperdine University

From Cigarettes To Alcohol: The Next Step In Hedonic Product Liability?, Robert F. Cochran Jr.

Pepperdine Law Review

While generally courts seem to have stopped and in many cases reversed the expansion of product liability, cigarette litigation is one of the few areas where there are signs of expanding tort liability. Cochran looks at the similarities between cigarettes and alcohol in considering whether alcohol manufacturers may be the next target of product liability lawsuits. The similarities between cigarettes and alcohol are numerous. Both are hedonic products, or products whose primary purpose is to provide pleasure. They are also both dangerous to users and bystanders, and society as a whole. Currently, many of the costs created by hedonic products …


State Medical Reimbursement Lawsuits After Tobacco: Is The Domino Effect For Lead Paint Manufacturers And Others Fair Game? , Richard L. Cupp Jr. 2012 Pepperdine University

State Medical Reimbursement Lawsuits After Tobacco: Is The Domino Effect For Lead Paint Manufacturers And Others Fair Game? , Richard L. Cupp Jr.

Pepperdine Law Review

In 1998 the tobacco industry reached a settlement with the government for $246 billion. The massive size and scope of the states' tobacco settlement will inevitably exert a powerful influence on tort litigation for decades. The proliferation of copycat lawsuits, such as lead paint claims, seeking to emulate the spectacular success of the tobacco lawsuits will be one of the first aftershocks. The appropriate legislative response to this copycat litigation is to enact legislation limiting mass tort claims by states and other government entities. Because politics and economics may be influencing the filing of these lawsuits, rather than a purer …


Litigating The Holocaust: A Consistent Theory In Tort For The Private Enforcement Of Human Rights Violations , Derek Brown 2012 Pepperdine University

Litigating The Holocaust: A Consistent Theory In Tort For The Private Enforcement Of Human Rights Violations , Derek Brown

Pepperdine Law Review

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Lead Paint Public Entity Lawsuits: Has The Broad Stroke Of Tobacco And Firearms Litigation Painted A Troubling Picture For Lead Paint Manufacturers?, Amber E. Dean 2012 Pepperdine University

Lead Paint Public Entity Lawsuits: Has The Broad Stroke Of Tobacco And Firearms Litigation Painted A Troubling Picture For Lead Paint Manufacturers?, Amber E. Dean

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Political Question Or Judicial Query: An Examination Of The Modern Doctrine And Its Inapplicability To Human Rights Mass Tort Litigation, Nancy S. Williams 2012 Pepperdine University

Political Question Or Judicial Query: An Examination Of The Modern Doctrine And Its Inapplicability To Human Rights Mass Tort Litigation, Nancy S. Williams

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Selling Structured Settlements: The Uncertain Effect Of Anti-Assignment Clauses , Gregory Scott Crespi 2012 Pepperdine University

Selling Structured Settlements: The Uncertain Effect Of Anti-Assignment Clauses , Gregory Scott Crespi

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Federalism And Preemption In October Term 1999, Jonathan D. Varat 2012 Pepperdine University

Federalism And Preemption In October Term 1999, Jonathan D. Varat

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Scope Of Liability Under The Alien Tort Statute: The Relevance Of Choice Of Law Doctrine In The Aftermath Of Kiobel V. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Jon E. Crain 2012 Pace University School of Law

Scope Of Liability Under The Alien Tort Statute: The Relevance Of Choice Of Law Doctrine In The Aftermath Of Kiobel V. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Jon E. Crain

Pace Law Review

Recently Judge José A. Cabranes, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, issued a decision that drastically undermined the efficacy of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). Writing for the majority in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 621 F.3d 111 (2d Cir. 2010), Judge Cabranes ruled that corporate entities cannot be held liable under the ATS. This Comment will examine the choice-of-law aspect of that decision, and argue that Judge Cabranes erred in interpreting the ATS to mandate application of customary international law (CIL).


Lost Life And Life Projects, Sean Hannon Williams 2012 U. Texas Faculty Account

Lost Life And Life Projects, Sean Hannon Williams

Indiana Law Journal

This Article provides the first analysis of wrongful death damages from the perspective of individual justice accounts of tort law. There is a widespread belief that wrongful death damages are incoherent. Currently, tort law responds only to the harms of the decedent’s living relatives. Drawing on deterrence rationales, Cass Sunstein, Eric Posner, and others have recommended altering these damage awards so that they respond to the harms of the decedent herself by providing “lost life” damages. This Article offers a different and powerful new foundation for lost life damages rooted in corrective justice and its main competitor, civil recourse. At …


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