The new book is structured around apartheid profiteers, war profiteers, state capture profiteers, welfare profiteers, failing auditors, conspiring consultants and bad lawyers.
A voting dropbox is pictured ahead of the midterm elections in Mesa, Ariz., in October 2022.
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Most of the election-related lawsuits now before state courts focus on fine details of election procedures. This can be a costly, time-consuming process for state courts.
Many companies have sold dangerous prescription drugs.
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The social cost helps regulators factor in harm from climate change when they consider new rules and purchases, like buying electric- vs. gas-powered trucks for the Postal Service.
Esther Nesbitt lost two of her children to drug overdoses.
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The state’s revised statute will likely lead to a flurry of lawsuits against firearms manufacturers and gun stores. What’s less clear is whether that will curb gun violence.
Aerial view of Lake Powell on the Colorado River along the Arizona-Utah border.
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The Supreme Court recently dealt defeat to Florida in its 20-year legal battle with Georgia over river water. Other interstate water contests loom, but there are no sure winners in these lawsuits.
Unwanted touching in the office is an all-too-common experience for women.
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Judges are generally reluctant to decide elections, as the Supreme Court controversially did in 2000. As a result, Trump’s flurry of litigation could wind up throwing the election to the House.
Judges can intervene in elections, but the Supreme Court really prefers not to.
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The GOP is hoping the ghosts of Florida past will tilt the race in Trump’s favor. But Joe Biden’s apparent electoral lead in numerous key states may insulate his win from such legal challenges.
Workers leave Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant on May 20, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Jeb Barnes, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Thomas F. Burke, Wellesley College
American ambivalence about government has left the courts to play an outsized role responding to public health crises like lead poisoning, asbestos-related illnesses and now, the coronavirus pandemic.
Google’s size isn’t the only reason way it exerts market power.
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Many who represent themselves in court fail to make it through the process, have their case dismissed or lose what otherwise would have been a winning case.
Commonwealth Bank Chairwoman Catherine Livingstone addresses the press club.
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