Legal Backgrounders

December 17, 2004

Legal Backgrounders

Michigan High Court Ruling Offers Positive Guidance On Challenges To Tort Reform Laws

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By Glenn G. Lammi, Chief Counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Studies Division and James Chang, an Institute for Humane Studies Fellow at the Washington Legal Foundation during the summer of 2004.

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