Sentence examples for have tort from inspiring English sources

"It would have been quite interesting if John McCain in the last 60 days had said, 'I'll be your 60th vote, Harry [Reid]... Here's my price.'" His price, says Kerrey, might have "tort reform".

Perhaps the greatest challenge to wrongs-based theories lies in explaining what value there is, apart from loss-shifting, in having tort law.

Thornton says that by using the principles of tort law, the case "returns to the fundamental power of the court to prevent harm – it is of great relevance to courts in other countries – every country in the world has tort law".

(Texas has tort reform, but there is no evidence to show it has kept costs from escalating). His glibness in these areas, along with a charming tendency to find some persuasive argument in almost everyone he interviews, led me to trust his reporting but to be more skeptical of his policy prescriptions.

Because tort liability is sensitive to luck in these ways, scholars such as Christopher Schroeder and Jeremy Waldron have condemned tort law as morally arbitrary.

Until we have malpractice tort reform, doctors will fear autopsies.

Many states now have civil tort laws that immunize contact sports from the usual injury claims — but not from aberrant misconduct.

I am speaking here of the Countrywide bondholders on the one hand, and those who have various tort claims (like claims for fraud), on the other.

They argue that judges friendly to plaintiffs' lawyers have declared tort reform laws unconstitutional in many states as a political reward for campaign contributions.

But Mr. Tauzin said he doubted "whether in the middle of a bioterrorism crisis we can have a tort reform debate".

State legislatures have enacted tort reforms, such as caps on damages, in an effort to reduce the volume and costs of malpractice litigation.