Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes (Updated July 7, 2008)

摘要

This report considers the constitutionality of federal tort reform legislation, such as the products liability and medical malpractice reform proposals that have been introduced for the last several Congresses. Tort law at present is almost exclusively state law rather than federal law, although, as noted in the appendix to this report, Congress has enacted a number of tort reform statutes.