Cyrus Dugger

Tortellini Roundup

A couple of great new posts on the Tortellini:

The coming litigation explosion?

Watching the stock market bounce around lately has made me wonder about the country's over-reliance on speculative real estate loans. The subprime lending industry has been rotten to the core for a long time, preying on the elderly and minorities with abusive and usurious loans that often resulted in poor people losing their homes and ending up in pretty dire financial straits. But in the 1990s, there were lots of lawsuits that helped bring many of the abuses to light, particularly those against the Associates and then-Citimortgage, and there were a few reforms. (keep reading)

Health Courts: The stealth attack on juries continues

The Robert Wood Johnson has just given the corporate tort reform group Common Good a $1 million grant to establish pilot "health courts" in several states around the country. Leading the way is Maryland, which apparently is going to have hearings soon in the legislature about creating specialized courts that would only hear medical malpractice cases (Common Good prefers the less threatening term "medical liability" cases, rather than malpractice). (keep reading)

John Edwards Finally Escapes Trial Lawyer Label

I know presidential contender John Edwards has been working hard to get the media to drop "former trial lawyer" from his name. Unfortunately, I think he has officially succeeded, but of course, I doubt very much that this was what he was looking for... (keep reading)

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