After observing his whirlwind, extemporaneous 2008-09 Supreme Court Term Review Thursday, few could argue that Erwin Chemerinsky isn't "one of the brightest leading lights in the legal community today." That's the description 10th U.S. Circuit Court Judge Deanell Reece Tacha offered in introducing Chemerinsky, the speaker at a UMKC School of Law event. Pictured is Chemerinsky greeting Tacha.

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The days of large punitive-damage awards may be coming to an end. Erwin Chemerinsky, law professor and founding dean of the University of California-Irvine School of Law, said the U.S. Supreme Court moved litigants down the road to lower punitive ...

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