Loser Pays FORUM ARCHIVE
America differs from all other Western democracies (indeed, from virtually all nations of any sort) in its refusal to recognize the principle that the losing side in litigation should contribute toward "making whole" its prevailing opponent. It's long past time this country joined the world in adopting that principle; unfortunately, any steps toward doing so must contend with deeply entrenched resistance from the organized bar, which likes the system the way it is. . . .
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Anthony Sebok on loser-pays By Walter Olson, 10-06-2008 Shareholder class actions in Australia By Walter Olson, 09-02-2008 UK Insurer Facilitates Antitrust Claims in Loser Pays Environment By Marie Gryphon, 08-23-2008 "New Talk" discussion of loser-pays By Walter Olson, 08-19-2008 Around the web, June 6 By Walter Olson, 06-06-2008 "Resurrect Rule 11" By Walter Olson, 04-07-2008 Offer of settlement in Colorado By Walter Olson, 03-05-2008 Lawyers' Fees For Me, But Not For Thee By Michael Krauss, 02-08-2008 Legal expenses insurance By Walter Olson, 02-05-2008 Loser-pays and the Vioxx settlement By Walter Olson, 01-31-2008 "Using Neuroeconomics Experiments to Study Tort Reform" By Walter Olson, 01-27-2008 More successful countersuits by docs? By Walter Olson, 12-20-2007 Around the web, December 10 By Walter Olson, 12-10-2007 Around the web, December 10 By Walter Olson, 12-10-2007 Welcome Columbia Sci/Tech Law Review readers By Walter Olson, 11-06-2007 "Loser-Pays in Alaska: The Way It Should Be" By Walter Olson, 07-31-2007 Sebok on the Pearson pants suit By Ted Frank, 07-05-2007 Floyd Abrams on Islamic Society of Boston By Ted Frank, 06-06-2007 One-way fee-shifting By Walter Olson, 03-15-2007 Arguments For/Against Loser-Pays By Jonathan B. Wilson, 12-04-2006 Smoot v. Mazda By Ted Frank, 11-29-2006 Major incentive effects dept. By Walter Olson, 07-19-2006 Baltimore Would Benefit from Loser-Pays By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-14-2006 Frivolous tax-protest arguments By Walter Olson, 07-07-2006 One-way fee shifts By Walter Olson, 07-02-2006 Ohio med-mal proposals By Walter Olson, 06-14-2006 Granholm v. Heald aftermath By Ted Frank, 04-10-2006 Welcome Huffington Post readers By Walter Olson, 04-04-2006 Georgia One Step Closer to Reform By Jonathan B. Wilson, 03-21-2006 "Patents and Loser Pays: Why Not?" By Walter Olson, 02-11-2006 Loser-pays bill introduced in Indiana By Walter Olson, 02-04-2006 British taxpayers won't foot Vioxx legal bills By Ted Frank, 12-13-2005 Blogs on Posner's Budget Rent-A-Car opinion By Ted Frank, 11-29-2005 Budget Rent A Car System Inc. v. Consolidated Equity By Ted Frank, 11-24-2005 Stossel Endorses Loser-Pays By Jonathan B. Wilson, 11-23-2005 U.K. mulls allowing contingent fees By Walter Olson, 11-14-2005 Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp. By Ted Frank, 11-09-2005 ABA Journal Misses Story on Offer of Judgment Rule By Jonathan B. Wilson, 10-11-2005 Roberts, fee-shifting, and the balance of sympathy By Walter Olson, 08-11-2005 Washington Examiner on LARA By Walter Olson, 08-02-2005 Reader request: one-way fee shifting By Walter Olson, 08-01-2005 California labor law By Walter Olson, 07-27-2005 Reports from the Field on Offers of Judgment By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-09-2005 Loser-Pays and Election Litigation By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-15-2005 The politics of loser-pays By Walter Olson, 06-08-2005 Flaws in Georgia liability reform By Walter Olson, 06-02-2005 "Out Of Balance: Prescriptions for Reforming the American Litigation System" By Walter Olson, 05-27-2005 Michigan's offer-of-judgment rule By Walter Olson, 03-18-2005 Offer-of-judgment rules By Walter Olson, 03-02-2005 WSJ and loser-pays By Walter Olson, 02-08-2005 Taylor on Bush reforms By James R. Copland, 01-31-2005 Pennsylvania medical countersuits By Walter Olson, 01-10-2005 Ohio enacts wide-ranging liability reforms By Walter Olson, 12-20-2004 Toward loser-pays in California? By Walter Olson, 11-23-2004 Strong Rule 11: judges liked it By Walter Olson, 10-04-2004 "Bad ideas don't travel" By Walter Olson, 08-26-2004 Medical malpractice: costly problems, real solutions By James R. Copland, 07-28-2004 Legal mischief and the end of merit By James R. Copland, 06-09-2004 More confusion: business-to-business lawsuits By James R. Copland, 05-27-2004 Loser pays: clearing up some confusion By James R. Copland, 05-26-2004 Sen. Graham introduces loser-pays bill By Walter Olson, 05-19-2004 Countersue? Just try it, doc By Walter Olson, 05-14-2004
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