Suing the tobacco and lead pigment industries : government litigation as public health prescription /
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| Language: | English |
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University of Michigan Press,
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?URL=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.291047 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion.