The UCC gets another rewrite; just when you thought you really knew the Uniform Commercial Code, almost every article is undergoing major changes in a major revision

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The legal organizations sponsoring the Uniform Commercial Code are near the end of a major revision of that body of law. No section of the code will go untouched and three new sections will be added. All business attorneys will be affected and should pay attention to this revision, which was done to adapt the code to the economy's shift from a basis on manufacturing to that of services and information. One problem in the revision is the difficulty of getting people to speak for the interests of consumers and small businessmen.

Analysis, Commercial law, Law reform, Legal reform, Codification (Law)

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A changing landscape: as Congress struggles to rewrite the nation's tort laws, the states already may have done the job

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National efforts to reform tort laws face challenges both in finding and addressing the correct problems and in overcoming a host of objections. Acts of Congress may encounter 10th Amendment assertions of state sovereignty as well as claims by trial lawyers and consumer rights groups that the intended reforms run counter to legal principles and the common weal. Many states have over the past 20 years enacted their own reforms, whilch some observers say were effective and others claim indicate the futility of such reform.

Cover Story, Sovereignty

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Letting the air out of tort reform

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Court battles could end up overturning many hard-fought tort reform victories achieved in state legislatures. While 22 states have enacted tort reform laws, appeals courts have thrown out many of these laws. Tort reform laws attempt to cap damages, but the public may not be convinced of the necessity for drastic caps. Moreover, some observers believe the problem has been overstated by reform advocates and those in the business community.

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