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Article: A response To Professor Cooper.(Mass Torts Symposium)(response to article by Edward H. Cooper in this issue, p. 1943)
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- University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Our hats are off to Professor Cooper for his production of a brilliant paper on the legal concerns presented by complex mass torts litigation.(1) His paper discusses the entire array of complex legal problems and issues raised by the adjudication of mass tort claims. The scope of this Response does not permit us to delve into the specifics of each of the topics that he has addressed; we shall therefore focus on what we believe are the larger issues.
To begin, Professor Cooper's proposed Mass Tort Statute, Mass Tort Civil Rule, and Settlement Class Rule each offer the current best conception of a total solution to the real problems encountered in mass tort ...