Your March 31 editorial "Warning Labels Don't Immunize Tobacco" states that "lawsuits may prove to be the best weapon" to drive the tobacco industry to more responsible behavior.
Judicial refereeing of litigation science-in-the-making would have the further advantage of acknowledging that lawsuits today serve less as testing grounds for competing claims than as devices for prompting the discovery, production, and assessment of new knowledge.
Recognizing that lawsuits can bring more unwanted attention, one organization has taken a different tack.
But there is no doubt that lawsuits will be brought over this map".
You yourself have said that lawsuits are partly to blame for higher medical costs.
Before the Bush administration, the F.D.A. argued that lawsuits provided patients with additional protection.
But now he concedes that lawsuits are often not the best way to get things done.
Several food companies have been notified that lawsuits are to be filed against them in California.
He also asserts that lawsuits are an effective way to protect consumers from unsafe products.
At nearly 2% of GDP, that is about twice the burden that lawsuits impose on other rich countries.
These shareholders fear that lawsuits Mr Bondi has filed against Parmalat's former financiers would be shelved were he to retire.
