| Table of Contents: | | | | GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS : NA, United States | | | | TOPICS : industry, politics, corporate, finance, judicial, party, social, automobile, election, pharmaceutical | | | | SIGNIFICANCE : Democratic party control of both the executive and legislative branches of government is usually associated with a major expansion of 'regulation by litigation', which benefits a core Democratic constituency (the plaintiffs' bar) at the expense of corporations. However, Obama has not indicated that he will pursue a wholesale rollback of Republican initiatives to constrain private lawsuits, or encourage an explosion in private litigation |
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