If the trend continues with contrarian and uber-conservative Republicans now in charge, we may expect to see any legislation the president tries to put forward, over the next two years, subject to litigation of one sort or another.
The litigation of one case could take years, and a deep-pocketed defendant could extend the process for as long as possible, and then settle the case just before trial.
While the above analysis indicates that discounting patients' views might increase the risk of litigation, one of five studies included in this review examined the implications of discussing the pros and cons of PSA testing [ 29].
"Obviously I work for a shop that relies on litigation as one of many tools in our toolbox, in terms of confronting bad projects that shouldn't have passed, or shouldn't pass environmental and regulatory reviews," Reid said.
Re "Lack of Lawyers Hinders Appeals in Capital Cases" (front page, July 5) and "Justice O'Connor on Executions" (editorial, July 5): Regrettably, those who oppose the death penalty are doomed to failure as long as they take an incremental approach that fractures their energy between the litigation of individual cases on the one hand and state-by-state legislative action on the other.
Although this development likely depends on a number of factors, including financial reasons, women's requests and fear of litigation, one possible factor may be the type of care women receive during childbirth.
[C2.] Tenet Settles Patient Lawsuits Tenet Healthcare agreed to pay $395 million to settle litigation accusing one of its hospitals of performing unnecessary surgeries.
The New Yorker, March 2, 1940 P. 9 Mr. John W. Davis (of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner, Reed & Co., was in court representing a client in a more than usually tedious bit of litigation. The testimony of one account took the entire day. Mr. Davis whiled away the time by composing a sonnet about ennui.
By Philip W. Wrenn and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, March 2, 1940 P. 9 Mr. John W. Davis (of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner, Reed & Co., was in court representing a client in a more than usually tedious bit of litigation. The testimony of one account took the entire day. Mr. Davis whiled away the time by composing a sonnet about ennui.
At one point, as Assistant United States Attorney William S. Houser explained to Judge Edwin M. Kosik that the government was willing to reach a plea agreement with the men because the case involved "complex charges that could have resulted in years of litigation," one man sitting in the audience said "bull" loud enough to be heard in the courtroom.
Even without that Ninth Circuit ruling, if the Supreme Court decided to lift all the injunctions, that would allow the ban to go into effect, explained Aziz Huq, a constitutional lawyer involved in litigation in one of the cases against the ban outside of the Fourth and Ninth circuits.
