Earlier this month, the Federal Courts’ Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure approved for publication a package of proposals that would, if en
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CPSC Commissioners Testify At Hearing Regarding Database
Issues about the product complaint database set up by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission bubbled over again last week. We have posted on the …
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House Hearing on CAFA- Seven Years Later
A topic near and dear to the hearts of readers of MassTortDefense was the subject of a recent hearing by a subcommittee of the U.S. House Judiciary Co…
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Why We Can’t Sue Our Way to Prosperity
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing earlier this week on “Can We Sue Our Way to Prosperity?: Litigati…
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Senate Judiciary Committee Approves “Sunshine” Bill That Clouds Up Settlements
Here at MassTortDefense we know that while not the “sexy” part of litigation, the nuts and bolts of settlement agreements are crucial to cli…
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