Michael Krauss, 9 George Mason Law Review 69 (2000)

In 1995 a Mississippi jury awarded $500 million against a Canada-based funeral home chain in what had been considered a routine low-stakes financial dispute. Among the results: widespread alarm in international business circles about the susceptibility of the American courtroom to manipulative demagogy, and a precedent-setting trade dispute over whether the court’s treatment of Loewen amounted to expropriation.