Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries : Government Litigation as Public Health Prescription /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gifford, Donald G., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tobacco > United States.
Liability, Legal > United States.
Lead Poisoning > United States.
Jurisprudence > United States.
Consumer Product Safety > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Class actions (Civil procedure) > United States.
Government litigation > United States.
Lead based paint > Law and legislation > United States.
Products liability > Tobacco > United States.
Products liability > United States.
Parens patriae
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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