The Paycheck Fairness Act looks like common sense, but instead of helping women it will hurt all workers. The legislation, built on 30 years of spurious advocacy research, will impose unnecessary and onerous requirements on employers.

The Stoneridge case could make nearly anyone liable for securities fraud at public companies.

It went virtually unnoticed (and unreported by this newspaper), but last week a federal court found the government of Iran liable for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

The Gulf Coast oil spill offers an opportunity to reflect on the basic principles of tort law, which makes clear that in this case full economic damages are appropriate but punitive damages should not be pursued.

Every day patients receive treatments that do not work properly. For many this means no relief from symptoms, but for some death is the result. Yet concerted action against such products is limited. Before we can discuss why that's the case, I will attempt to explain what kind of products don’t work, and what we should call them.

While BP should be legally liable for the damages stemming from the Gulf oil spill, the punishment for BP should come through due process, not the show trials being pursued by the president and Congress.

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On October 9, 2007, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta, a case that many are calling the most important securities case in years. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a class action suit...

Can employers be held liable for discriminating without having the intent to discriminate? The answer is yes.