EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the last half century, the tobacco industry has earned billions of dollars in profits by selling a deadly and addictive product while denying its harmfulness. As criticism of the industry has accelerated in recent years, and calls for product regulation have grown, tobacco companies have defended themselves by saying they are now “responsible” corporations that aim to com...

UNLABELLED This report describes an unprecedented malpractice litigation on a neurology case. A young woman developed multiple complications after a simple hysterectomy: pan-peritonitis, post-op deep coma with hypotension, generalized anasarca, hyponatremia, hemolysis, cerebral hypoxia and renal shutdown requiring dialysis and multiple-unit blood transfusions. She survived 43 days in Neuro-ICU,...

This paper aims to evaluate the regulation model for filing an action pauliana lawsuit by creditors revoke debtor’s legal actions prior declaration of bankruptcy. The research method used is normative juridical. results show that regulating authority who wish file actio against debtors in bankruptcy law can be done making changes Law Number 37 2004 concerning Bankruptcy adding article which reg...

In 1985, an article by Blair and Maron described a detailed evaluation of the effectiveness of an operational full text retrieval system used to support the defense of a large corporate lawsuit. The following year Salton published an article which called into question the conclusions of the 1985 study. The following article briefly reviews the initial study, replies to the objections raised by ...

Conflict analysis and resolution play an important role in business, governmental, political and lawsuit disputes, labor-management negotiations, military operations and others. Many mathematical models of conflict situations have been proposed and investigated. In this paper a novel approach to conflict analysis, based on rough set theory , is outlined. Basic concepts of this approach are defi...

In February 2015, I filed a lawsuit requesting access to voting-machine records. In February 2016, a motion by the plaintiff to deny me access to those records was successful. In short, even though voters in Sedgwick County, Kansas, use voting machines with a paper trail, that paper trail is not public and no one is allowed to look at those records, even at their own expense. Not for a recount....

Settlement of disputes through the courts is not right choice if loss small because what demanded worth incurred. Then Supreme Court issued Perma Number 2 2015, amended by 4 2019, concerning simple lawsuits. The birth has consequence a settlement an ordinary civil lawsuit and lawsuit. Based on this, authors examine differences similarities in settling lawsuits with constraints both. This resear...