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In Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries, legal scholar Donald G. Gifford recounts the transformation of tort litigation in response to the challenge posed by victims of 21st-century public health crises who seek compensation from the product manufacturers. Class action litigation promised a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gifford, Donald G., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Products liability > United States.
Products liability > Tobacco > United States.
Lead based paint > Law and legislation > United States.
Government litigation > United States.
Class actions (Civil procedure) > United States.
Lead poisoning.
Tobacco.
Consumer Product Safety > legislation & jurisprudence
Jurisprudence
Lead Poisoning
Liability, Legal
Nicotiana
Responsabilité du fait des produits > États-Unis.
Responsabilité du fait des produits > Tabac > États-Unis.
Contentieux du gouvernement > États-Unis.
Actions collectives (Procédure civile) > États-Unis.
Intoxication par le plomb.
Tabac.
tobacco (material)
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Tobacco
Lead poisoning
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Government litigation
Lead based paint > Law and legislation
Products liability
Products liability > Tobacco
United States
Parens patriae
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The morning after the consumer century
  • Product-caused diseases confront the law of the Iron Horse
  • The first wave of challenges to the individual causation requirement
  • The seeds of government-sponsored litigation
  • A failure of democratic processes? : legislative responses to the public health problems caused by tobacco and lead pigment
  • The government as plaintiff : parens patriae actions against tobacco and gun manufacturers
  • Judicial rejection of recovery for collective harm : public nuisance and the Rhode Island paint litigation
  • Do litigation remedies cure product-caused public health problems?
  • Impersonating the legislature : state attorneys general and parens patriae products litigation
  • Conclusion.

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