Clamp Down On Silica Suits ATRA Urges Texas
NU Online News Service, Sept. 26, 4:33 p.m. EDT?A business group, working to halt the proliferation of civil lawsuits, filed legal papers today urging the Texas Supreme Court to curb what it said is a potential explosion of lawsuits in that state over silica illness claims.
The arguments by the American Tort Reform Association of Washington, D.C., were made in an amicus curiae (friend of court) brief that was filed with the Coalition for Litigation Justice in the case of U.S. Silica Company v. Tompkins.
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