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While a fair and effective legal system allows business leaders to focus on hiring, innovating, and expanding, excessive or frivolous litigation crushes opportunities for private industry and consumers alike. A healthy legal system protects both employees and consumers while encouraging business growth.
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The U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform and Litigation Center advocate for a fair and equal civil justice system to foster a healthy business climate, protect employers from abusive litigation, and serve the interests of consumers, not trial lawyers. We work at every level of the U.S. judicial system and with leaders in almost every state, Congress, and around the world to defend the rule of law.
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The new IRA provisions establish an artificial and arbitrary system for devising price caps that will jeopardize medical breakthroughs for individuals with life-threatening and chronic illnesses.
This Hill letter was sent to the House Committee on the Judiciary, supporting H.R. 788, the "Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2023."
The Glacier Northwest ruling offers an important protection for employers facing destructive union behavior. If taken too far, such behavior may come at a steep price for the union.
Arbitration doesn’t pose a risk to consumers. It benefits them. Why is the CFPB trying to ban it?
This Comment letter was transmitted to the Enviromental Protection Agency and Department of Justice, on the agencies' approaches to resolution of liability issues under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, opposing H.R. 7780, the "Mental Health Matters Act."
