Now What? Steadying Tort Law’s Pendulum

Miller, Nelson Pierce

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Now What? Steadying Tort Law’s Pendulum

Nelson Pierce Miller

Thomas M. Cooley Law School

May 1, 2009

Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 88, No. 5, p. 38, 2009

Abstract:
Michigan's Supreme Court has reversed a significant number of tort-law precedents over a short time because of changes in the court's political majority. Those changes disrupt practice and diminish public confidence in the court. Tort law has a steadying tendency in its prescription for reasonable care. The court should address itself once again to the foundation of tort law to diminish the number and negative effects of too-frequent reversals of tort law precedents.

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Keywords: tort law, reverse, politics, political, steadying, pendulum, stare decisis, reason, reasonable, care

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Date posted: November 19, 2011

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Miller, Nelson Pierce, Now What? Steadying Tort Law’s Pendulum (May 1, 2009). Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 88, No. 5, p. 38, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1961655

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