We omit, for brevity, the fact that standard setting processes involve changes subsequent to the enactment of the standard, some of which are induced by litigation or by legislatively mandated revision that account for new scientific or technological developments.
We didn't have litigation.
Litigation is indeed a poor way to induce better corporate behaviour.
"The government's practice of presenting incomplete proof calculated to exclude all evidence adverse to its litigation position, while permissible as a trial tactic, does not induce confidence that the government will eschew the opportunity to argue misleading inferences," the judge wrote.
According to the six-count indictment, the bribe was intended to induce the judge to rule in favor of Mr. Scruggs's firm in a lawsuit over the settlement of litigation about Hurricane Katrina.
The impetus behind the current wave of litigation against McDonald's in America is the allegation that the high sugar, high fat, high salt, high caffeine diet is profoundly addictive, and that the fast food companies knowingly induce their customers into that addiction from the earliest age.
The firm Patton Boggs, which later became Squire Patton Boggs through a merger, represented Corinthian in at least one litigation: a Texas state court lawsuit brought by student Dana Garcia, who claimed that Corinthian made unlawful misrepresentations and omissions to induce students to enroll.
There were several factors that may have induced inappropriate antibiotic prescription, including diagnostic uncertainty, socio-cultural and economic pressures, lack of knowledge, and fear of litigation [ 50, 51].
