An American Tort Reform Association spokesman and D.C. resident today called a local police captain’s multimillion dollar lawsuit against the District of Columbia and several city officials a “disgraceful insult to every Washington taxpayer”
UncategorizedThe District of Columbia’s highest court has rejected two claims that threatened to make the nation’s capital a magnet for consumer lawsuit abuse. The alternative, the Court recognized, “would open our courts to any person from anywhere who decides to lodge a complaint labeled as a ‘representative action’ . . . even though that person has suffered no injury-in-fact related to a District of Columbia merchant’s unlawful trade practice”
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