The potential for saving $1 billion nationwide with more active judicial intervention in medical malpractice cases is certainly an improvement over the current litigation free-for-all.
This could encourage websites to censor sex-related ads to protect themselves from litigation, free-speech advocates warn.
When things end, they end in gunfire, asphyxiation — litigation-free closers like that.
If we lived in a litigation-free world, it might be easier for drug makers to go further than this.
"It would be pretty remarkable if winning the presidency became a get-out-of-all-pending-litigation-free card".
Then there is exploding litigation; fading free trade, wounded by a thousand cuts in Washington and Brussels; and new pork, as exemplified by last month's $190 billion farm welfare bill.
In trying to minimize the board's costs, he has taken on some of the litigation work himself, free.
He said that the conditional fee system has "frequently ended up as something of a racket allowing risk-free litigation for claimants, inflated profits for legal firms, and punitive additional costs for defendants".
His firm, Grais & Ellsworth, is part of a small group of litigation boutiques that are free of conflicts and can sue the large financial institutions.
"Not only did G.M. never pay a nickel," Mr. Kempf said, "but when the plaintiffs sought $50,000 to cover their costs in return for promising to not appeal, he persuaded G.M. to reject the offer when he told them to send a message -- litigation is not risk free".
He was arrested in 1985 and spent 18 years in prison before being exonerated in 2003 through DNA evidence found by The Innocence Project, a non-profit that uses legal services, litigation, and activism to free the wrongfully-convicted. Two years later, Avery was arrested for another murder and convicted again in 2007.
