The Role of Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance in Securities Fraud Class Action Settlements

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dain C. Donelson ◽  
Justin J. Hopkins ◽  
Christopher G. Yust
Keyword(s):  
Class Action ◽  
Securities Fraud ◽  
Directors And Officers

The Role of Private Law in the Control of Risks Associated with Tobacco Smoking: The Canadian Experience

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 442-470
Author(s):  
Lara Khoury ◽  
Marie-Eve Couture-Ménard ◽  
Olga Redko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Health Objectives

Can private law litigation serve as a tool for advancing public health objectives? With this contentious and oft-asked question in mind, we tackle Canada's recent tobacco litigation. This Article first presents critical commentary regarding various lawsuits waged against Canadian cigarette manufacturers by citizens acting as individuals or as parties to class action lawsuits. We then turn to analyze how Canada's provincial governments rely on targeted legislation to facilitate private law recourses for recouping the healthcare costs of treating tobacco-related diseases. We address challenges to the constitutionality of this type of legislation, as well as attempts by manufacturers to transfer responsibility to the federal government.Canadian litigation in this field is nothing like that of the United States with regards to both the volume and variety of its individual and class action litigation claims. This is also true with regard to the stage of advancement of governmental claims in Canada. Nevertheless, particularities of the Canadian context may provide interesting contrast with the situation in the United States.

scholarly journals Long-Term Strategies in Japanese Environmental Litigation

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 605-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Kidder ◽  
Setsuo Miyazawa
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Many

Japan's reputation for unusually strong emphasis on the avoidance of public conflict and therefore for deemphasis of legal institutions suggests an arid, hostile environment for litigators, especially those who lack substantial resources. In a study of a quasi-class action lawsuit by Japanese air pollution victims, we find that litigation can be developed as a tool in the pursuit of a social movement's wider objectives despite the paucity of resources within the Japanese legal system. Our research documents the many ways in which the delays, obstacles, and costs that characterize the litigation environment in Japan have been either neutralized or turned to the advantage of a social movement because of its commitment to longer-term political objectives rather than short-term victories. The special role of professions in general, and the legal profession in particular, in such litigation combines with class-oriented social movements to produce a political/legal pattern that is neither traditionally harmonious nor a conflict “difficult to contain.”

Litigation as Public Health Policy: Theory or Reality?

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Jacobson ◽  
Soheil Soliman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Policy Theory ◽  
Health Goals

An ongoing debate among legal scholars and public health advocates is the role of litigation in shaping public policy. For the most part, the debate has been waged at a conceptual level, with opponents and proponents arguing within fairly well-defined boundaries. The debate has been based either on speculation of what litigation could achieve or on ideological grounds as to why litigation should or should not be used this way. With the exception of Rosenberg's study of how litigation shaped policy in civil rights, abortion, and environmental matters, there is almost no empirical support for either position.In recent years, the most ardent proponents of litigation as public policy have been public health advocates. Perhaps out of frustration with the inability to achieve desired public health goals through the legislative branch of government, public health advocates have pursued litigation as an alternative strategy. Beginning with tobacco class action litigation in the early 1990s and continuing with litigation against gun manufacturers at the end of that decade, public health advocates have waged a veritable litigation assault aimed at changing how public health policy is formed.

scholarly journals MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR SIMBOLIK ANAK USIA DINI KELOMPOK A (USIA 4-5 TAHUN) DENGAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN LESUNG ANGKA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 354
Author(s):  
Ani Bodedarsyah ◽  
Rita Yulianti
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Media ◽  
Symbolic Thinking ◽  
Media Learning

Cognitive development is an important aspect. One of them is the ability to think symbolically. To improve the ability of symbolic thinking of early childhood certainly cannot be separated from the role of educators. Indicators of cognitive development that must be achieved by children aged 4-5 years are: numbers 1-10, recognizing the concept of numbers, recognizing the symbol of numbers, and recognizing the symbol of letters. For this reason, it is appropriate for educators to work hard to improve the ability to think symbolically in early childhood by providing stimulation through appropriate learning media like children, one of which is the media learning of dimples. This research was conducted with a class action research method. From the two cycles that have been done show the results that there is an increase in the ability of symbolic thinking in early childhood group A using the media learning dimples.Perkembangan kognitif merupakan aspek yang tidak kalah penting. Salah satunya  adalah kemampuan berpikir simbolik. Untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir simbolik anak usia dini tentu tak lepas dari peranan pendidik. Indikator perkembangan kognitif yang harus dicapai anak usi 4-5 tahun adalah: membilang  benda 1-10, mengenal konsep bilangan, mengenal lambang bilangan, dan mengenal lambang huruf. Untuk itu sudah selayaknya pendidik berusaha dengan keras untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir simbolik anak usia dini dengan cara memberikan stimulasi melalui media pembelajaran yang tepat bagai anak, salah satunya adalah media pembelajaran lesung angka. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode peneletian tindakan kelas. Dari dua siklus  yang telah dilakukan menunjukkan hasil bahwa terdapat peningkatan kemmapuan berpikir simbolik pada anak usia dini kelompok A dengan menggunakan media pembelajaran lesung angka.

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