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In the past three decades, a mounting wave of litigation has swept the United States, prompting Newsweek to describe America as “lawsuit hell.” Fear of litigation has reduced innovation, menaced the health-care industry, driven manufacturers out of lawsuit-prone specialties,...

Verdicts like the one against Vioxx could end up denying valuable new drugs to patients.

Bowman considers new polls on the FDA, jury duty, consumer confidence, and Michael Moore.

Fear of litigation has a dramatically negative effect on costs, productivity and patient care.

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin's death on 'the system,' and 'the system' is a white thing.

The Ahmed Ghailani case underscores the necessity of Obama's quiet decision to change course and lift the ban he imposed after his inauguration on new military commission trials at Guantanamo.

Some of the Obama administration are trying to argue that Ghailani's conviction on one count is a victory. The Justice Department is now hoping to secure a life sentence for that one charge so they can brush this embarrassment under the table.