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They also hired an attorney and filed a federal tort claim against Customs and Border Protection for personal injury.

Most companies want expanded free-trade deals and tort reform.

Maybe they'd have saved Medicare Advantage from cuts, gotten some sort of tort reform thrown in, or slightly changed the pay-fors.

Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.

Saladoff admits that she made the film to advance her anti-tort reform point of view.

As it is an impersonal, artificial thing, a corporation cannot possibly commit a wrong or tort like a natural person.

In many states an action in tort instead of trespass is the proper remedy.

The publication of the same slander by different persons is not a joint tort, it is a distinct wrong done by each slanderer.

As the gist of the tort consists of the injury done to one's reputation, the defamatory statement must have been published.

Why, oh why, is the stealing of one kind of property a criminal offense, and another only a civil tort?