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COLLECTIVE PROCESS FOR MASS TORT CASES, BY DAVID ROSENBERG i (1989)

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Contents                 10 EtV1 e
I. Introduction
A. Mass  Tort  Case  Defined ............................ 1
B. Traditional Case-by-Case Process .................. 2
C. Collective Process Advocates ...................... 4
II. Traditional Case-by-Case Process
A Functional Productivity Analysis of its Costs
A. Compensation  Function ............................. 6
B.  Deterrence  Function ............................... 8
C. Defendants in Traditional Process................. 8
1.  Functional  Effects . . ... ..................... . 9
2. Strategic Advantages.,......................... 10
D. Attorney Abuses ..................o................ 12
E.  Shadow  Prices .............. o....................... 13
1.  Public  Costs .............................. o..... 13
2. Settlement.....
III. The Existing Collective Alternatives
to the Traditional Process
A.  Introduction ............................ o.......... 15
B. Analysis of Alternatives ...... o ................... 15
1. Voluntary Aggregation and Averaging ........... 15
a.  Settlement .................................. 15
b. Voluntary  Joinder ........................... 17
2. Involuntary Aggregation and Averaging .......... 20
IV. General Objections to Collective Process

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