The Consumer Law & Policy blog has introduced a new feature, an on-line book club, inviting authors for a discussion about what their scholarship. The author offers introductory comments to set the stage, followed by several postings of the excerpted work and follow up commentary. The first author featured is Michael S. Greve, the John G. Searle Scholar and Director of the Federalism Project at the American Enterprise Institute, and an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to discuss his book on consumer class actions. Dr. Greve’s book, Harm-Less Lawsuits, argues that consumer class actions: “punish corporate defendants twice for the same conduct . . . In allowing both types of suits (without one foreclosing the other), we have two liability regimes operating on top of one another, over the same range of transactions. Such a dual regime is bound to deter a wide range of productive activity, without serving a sensible public purpose.”
Posted by Orly Lobel on November 6, 2006 at 06:56 PM
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I would be interested in knowing if there are class action suits out there for the steroid exposure.
Posted by: Donna Deal | Dec 7, 2006 7:15:22 PM