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Asbestos litigation and tort law: Trends, ethics and solutions

Author
various authors
Monograph
Pepperdine Law Review
Date
2003
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-073348)
Publisher | Place of publication
Pepperdine University, School of Law | Malibu, CA, USA
Pages
1 - 322; 322 p. , Vol. 31(1)
Document type
Conference, symposium etc. document/report
Conference name | place | date
Annual symposium on ' Asbestos litigation and tort law: Trends, ethics and solutions ' | Malibu | 20030405 -20030406
Language
English
Country/Territory
United States of America
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Liability/compensation Hazardous substances
Abstract

Contents: (1) Asbestos and the sleeping constitution (2) Keeping junk science out of asbestos litigation (3) Alternatives to asbestos impairment standards (4) On the theory class's theories of asbestos litigation: The disconnect between scholarship and reality? (5) Judicial efficiency in asbestos litigation (6) Lawyer ethics on the lunar landscape of asbestos litigation (7) Asbestos litigation and bankruptcy: A case study for ad hoc public policy limitations on joint and several liability (8) Legislative attempts to address asbestos litigation (9) Asbestos litigation II: Section 524(g) without bankruptcy (10) The cumulative sources of the asbestos litigation phenomenon (11) Addressing the ' elephantine mass ' of asbestos cases: Consolidation versus inactive dockets ( pleural registries) and case management plans that defer claims filed by the non - sick (12) Merging roles: Mass tort lawyers as agents and trustees