Tort and Products Liability
Tort litigation remains a core component of the Litigation Center’s docket. The Litigation Center has filed in myriad cases resisting efforts to distort tort and products liability doctrines beyond their proper limits, to circumvent constitutional and statutory limits on outsized damages awards, and to use discovery tactics to force settlements of even meritless cases.
The public nuisance doctrine, causation, the criteria for class certification, and the legal standards governing expert testimony are some of the many recurring issues we have briefed in state and federal courts across the country.