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What defense lawyers seem not to realize is that tort reform hasn’t worked for 25 years. And large verdicts may be the most effective drivers in making health care safer.

Tagged with: medical malpractice tort reform

Organizations require trusted people, but they don’t necessarily know whether those people are trustworthy. How does an organization protect itself?

Tagged with: Edward Snowden National Security Agency

Rates remain at historic lows today, so borrowers with a loan event approaching should begin the financing process early to take advantage.

Tagged with: housing bubble real estate

The Justice Department accused Bank of America Corp. this week of defrauding Wachovia Corp. and the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco in a 2008 mortgage-bond deal. Here’s the funny part: Neither one has claimed it was defrauded by Bank of America in the transaction.

In the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on same-sex marriage, celebration has given way to the challenges of carrying them out. The complications begin with the Barack Obama administration’s own long equivocation over who should take the leading ...

What we have now is death to privacy — and that’s very dangerous to democracy and liberty.

An analysis of United States Supreme Court opinions written between 2006 and 2009 shows that to varying degrees, when the justices are writing minority opinions, the intensifiers flow more frequently than in their majority opinions.

The lonely pamphleteer whom the First Amendment was designed to protect from prior restraint was the precursor of the crazy blogger you love to hate, not of Walter Cronkite.

Calls for bolder financial reform have come mostly from people who want to punish Wall Street and put bankers in jail — an understandable sentiment, but also a distraction.

It would be reassuring to think that George Zimmerman’s acquittal on murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin finally settled the matter, that we could take the acquittal as the jury’s conclusion that the shooting was reasonable self-defense. Unfortunately, a serious flaw in Florida law leaves that conclusion uncertain.

Tagged with: George Zimmerman Self Defense Trayvon Martin

It’s one thing to blow your reputation by slapping AAA ratings on all sorts of garbage subprime-mortgage bonds. It only makes it worse to go into court years later and argue that your most cherished values are, for legal purposes, a bunch of smoke.

Tagged with: Standard & Poor