The Canadian Law of Toxic Torts
Author: Lynda Collins
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780888047144
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Author: Lynda Collins
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780888047144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur F. Foerster
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781627221276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrying a toxic tort case is very different from other high-stakes litigation. This practice-focused guide explores the specific and often unique elements that distinguish this type of litigation, including the differing theories of liability and damages and the key procedural and substantive defenses to toxic tort claims. Other topics include scientific and medical evidence and causation, case strategy, trial management, settlement considerations, and causation standards that apply in four regions of the country, reviewing the standards that apply in every state.
Author: Gerald W. Boston
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter H. Schuck
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780674010260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgent Orange on Trial is a riveting legal drama with all the suspense of a courtroom thriller. One of the Vietnam War's farthest reaching legacies was the Agent Orange case. In this unprecedented personal injury class action, veterans charge that a valuable herbicide, indiscriminately sprayed on the luxuriant Vietnam jungle a generation ago, has now caused cancers, birth defects, and other devastating health problems. Peter Schuck brilliantly recounts the gigantic confrontation between two million ex-soldiers, the chemical industry, and the federal government. From the first stirrings of the lawyers in 1978 to the court plan in 1985 for distributing a record $200 million settlement, the case, which is now on appeal, has extended the frontiers of our legal system in all directions. In a book that is as much about innovative ways to look at the law as it is about the social problems arising from modern science, Schuck restages a sprawling, complex drama. The players include dedicated but quarrelsome veterans, a crusading litigator, class action organizers, flamboyant trial lawyers, astute court negotiators, and two federal judges with strikingly different judicial styles. High idealism, self-promotion, Byzantine legal strategies, and judicial creativity combine in a fascinating portrait of a human struggle for justice through law. The Agent Orange case is the most perplexing and revealing example until now of a new legal genre: the mass toxic tort. Such cases, because of their scale, cost, geographical and temporal dispersion, and causal uncertainty, present extraordinarily difficult challenges to our legal system. They demand new approaches to procedure, evidence, and the definition of substantive legal rights and obligations, as well as new roles for judges, juries, and regulatory agencies. Schuck argues that our legal system must be redesigned if it is to deal effectively with the increasing number of chemical disasters such as the Bhopal accident, ionizing radiation, asbestos, DES, and seepage of toxic wastes. He imaginatively reveals the clash between our desire for simple justice and the technical demands of a complex legal system.
Author: Jack B. Weinstein
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780810111882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocumenting a prominent jurist's efforts, a collection of case studies examines his successes with Vietnam veteran exposure to Agent Orange, asbestos, and DES and repetitive stress syndrome, describes current legal attitudes, and recommends compassionate alternatives.
Author: Gary Pittman
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 0615490409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGary Pittman and his co-workers were systematically exposed to toxic substances while working for Occidental Chemical Corporation's north Florida phosphoric acid plants and mines. "Phosphate - Fluorides - Toxic Torts" is a personal narrative by Pittman describing his seven-year battle with Occidental while suffering with chemical poisoning, and the obstacles he had to overcome in the pursuit of compensation. Occidental Chemical Corporation was no stranger to Toxic Tort litigation. They were the company named in the 1979 landmark case, "United States v. Occidental," about the "Love Canal" public health disaster in the late 1970s. In 1995, the "Love Canal" case was still in the courts when Pittman, a co-worker, and attorney, Dorothy Clay Sims took on the mammoth Occidental machine with their legions of law firms. Did Pittman win? Yes and no. When you have your health, you can always make more money, but when you are poisoned and debilitated, there's not enough money in the world to buy back your health.
Author: Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1108416977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.
Author: D. Alan Rudlin
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9781590317341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrying a toxic tort case is unlike other high-stakes litigation. This guide explores the legal elements that distinguish toxic tort litigation, explaining theories of liability and damages as well as procedural and substantive defenses. Chapters cover scientific and medical evidence, causation, trial management and strategy, settlement, and specialized litigation, including mold, lead, asbestos, silica, food products, pharmaceuticals, and MTBE.
Author: M. Stuart Madden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-09-26
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780521851367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of scholarship from the most influential contributors regarding Torts law.
Author: Jay Tidmarsh
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 116
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