Because IRS auditors are supposed to take "litigation risk" into consideration to avoid getting bogged down in costly and time-consuming lawsuits, this creates an incentive for them to look elsewhere.
"That is not what litigation is supposed to be," said Mr. Olson.
"The original MMR vaccine litigation was supposed to be worth billions in compensation, not mere millions, but it cost millions in legal aid," Shaw told the Times.
It would be more accurate to say that the premiums are paid by corporations, and thus, ultimately, by the shareholders who are the supposed beneficiaries of this litigation.
"Litigation is not supposed to be a shell game," he added.
Securities-litigation reform laws were supposed to end the race to the courthouse, an unseemly practice designed to win control over litigation by being the first to file.
In rejecting exemplary damages, Eady said: "They bring the notion of punishment into civil litigation when damages are usually supposed to be about compensation".
Because of the pending civil litigation, the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department was supposed to have nothing to do with the Halbach investigation beyond lending any necessary equipment to the jurisdiction in charge.
Both sales are supposed to be completed by October; while pending tobacco litigation could stall the Nabisco Group Holdings deal, many analysts do not expect that to happen.
The law, which was supposed to go into effect in September but is in litigation, would make routine the process by which Laura was turned over to Border Patrol.
