Follow POL on Twitter That forum-shopping gamesmanship involving sequential Texas and California asbestos-suit filings, discussed in this space last week, has been breaking out into more general discussion thanks to a judge's outspoken remarks criticizing it as a "type of judicially sanctioned extortion."
Asbestos two-step, cont'd
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| Isaac Gorodetski Project Manager, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute igorodetski@manhattan-institute.org |
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