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Suing the tobacco and lead pigment industries : government litigation as public health prescription / Donald G. Gifford.
LIBRA KF1296 .G54 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gifford, Donald G., 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Products liability--United States.
- Products liability.
- Lead based paint--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Products liability--Tobacco--United States.
- Products liability--Tobacco.
- Lead based paint--Law and legislation--United States.
- Lead based paint.
- Government litigation--United States.
- Government litigation.
- Class actions (Civil procedure)--United States.
- Class actions (Civil procedure).
- Physical Description:
- vi, 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- The morning after the consumer century
- Product-caused diseases confront the law of the Iron Horse
- The first wave of challenges to the individual causation requirement
- The seeds of government-sponsored litigation
- A failure of democratic processes? : legislative responses to the public health problems caused by tobacco and lead pigment
- The government as plaintiff : parens patriae actions against tobacco and gun manufacturers
- Judicial rejection of recovery for collective harm : public nuisance and the Rhode Island paint litigation
- Do litigation remedies cure product-caused public health problems?
- Impersonating the legislature : state attorneys general and parens patriae products litigation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780472117147
- 0472117149
- 9780472021864
- 0472021869
- OCLC:
- 316831970
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