Tort Reform

The current manganese litigation facing the welding industry is unfolding in the larger context of the need for tort reform in our society at large. Posted below are a number of white papers that discuss the need for tort reform.

Judicial Hellholes® 2005
12/13/2005
American Tort Reform Association
® Judicial Hellholes is a Registered Trademark of the American Tort Reform Association.

There Will Be No Exodus: An Empirical Study of S. 2602’s Effects on Class Actions (PDF)
John H. Beisner and Jessica Davidson Miller
04/04
Mealey’s Tort Reform Update

Bringing Justice to Judicial Hellholes® (PDF)
2003
American Tort Reform Association
® Judicial Hellholes is a Registered Trademark of the American Tort Reform Association.

One Small Step for a County Court…One Giant Calamity for the National Legal System (PDF)
John H. Beisner, Jessica Davidson Miller, and Matthew M. Shors
04/03
Civil Justice Report, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute

Class Action Magnet Courts: The Allure Intensifies (PDF)
John H. Beisner and Jessica Davidson Miller
01/24/03
The Bureau of National Affairs

They’re Making a Federal Case Out of It (PDF)
John H. Beisner and Jessica Davidson Miller
Fall 2001
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy