Saturday, January 28, 2012
Links to the Florida/Tobacco Cert Petitions
Scotusblog has the links to all the linked petitions in the litigation arising out of the use of preclusion in issue class actions. Here is the link to Scotusblog.
The question presented is "whether the imposition of liability based on earlier litigation without any assurance that the earlier litigation actually decided the precluded issue violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
ADL
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mass_tort_litigation/2012/01/links-to-the-floridatobacco-cert-petitions.html