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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Mass torts in a world of settlement</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Nagareda, Richard A.</namePart>
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    <publisher>University of Chicago Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xx, 324 p. ill. 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Origins -- The development of a mass tort -- Regulating development indirectly -- Making and enforcing a grid -- The rise and fall of the mass tort class settlement -- Public legislation and private contracts -- Mandatory class actions revisited -- Maximizing or minimizing opt-outs -- Bankruptcy transformed -- Government as plaintiff -- Leveraging conflicts of interest -- Administering the leveraging proposal.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Richard A. Nagareda.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-317) and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Torts</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Complex litigation</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Class actions Civil procedure</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KF 1250 .N34 2007</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780226567600 (cloth : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0226567605 (cloth : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2006037824</identifier>
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