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• n  (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought

• Legal accountability for a tort -- a bad, harmful, or negligent practice or business decision -- is what has been capped by the bamboozle the Republicans call "tort reform.
• One key objection to alien tort claims is that they run counter to the traditional deference paid to local courts.
• I'm not going to argue tort reform.

• civil wrong

News & Articles

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• Tort Hell: Pfizer And A Lawsuit Over An Injury From A Generic
  A few months ago, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a controversial ruling that Pfizer can be sued by a man who claimed he was injured by a generic version of its Reglan heartburn medicine, because the brand-name drugmaker purportedly failed to warn his physician about the risks. Now, the court has granted a request for a re-hearing in September to reverse what some say could become 'tort hell ...
  June 14, 2013 - Forbes
• City Blamed for Faulty Crosswalk in Pedestrian Death
  The family of an elderly woman who was struck and killed by a car last November in East Portland has filed tort claims against the city, saying a faulty crosswalk sign was a major factor in her death . Ksenia Aleksandrova , 71, and her husband Pavel Krivolenkov , 70, were crossing the street at Southeast 108th Avenue and Washington Street when they were hit by a car being driven by Kimberly ...
  June 14, 2013 - Willamette Week
• The Lanier Law Firm's Lee Cirsch Highlighted on 2013 Southern California Rising Stars List
  LOS ANGELES, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Noted California trial attorney Lee Cirsch from The Lanier Law Firm has earned a spot on the 2013 Southern California Rising Stars listing based on his work in class actions and mass tort cases. This marks Mr. Cirsch's first selection to Rising...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire

Quotes

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• Samuel Alito in Chemical & Engineering News
  This case illustrates that tragic facts make bad law,Justice Samuel A. Alito wrote in a dissenting opinion that was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia. "The court holds that a state tort jury, rather than...
• Stanwood Duval in WNYT
  The United States should not be immunized for a tort which occurred from an activity unrelated to a flood control project,Duval wrote Friday. "Taken to its logical conclusion, such a policy would yield absurd results."
• Tom Siebel in Press-Enterprise
  I was trying to set an example,Siebel said in an interview. "This was a single person's effort at tort reform."