Congress Should Act to Resolve the National Asbestos Crisis: The Basis in Law and Public Policy for Meaningful Progress, Part Three

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a. Venue

Both the Cannon and Dooley bills appreciate that even if sound medical criteria to filter out meritless or unripe claims are well articulated, some courts may try to find creative ways around the criteria to permit thousands of claims to proceed. In order to prevent the federal criteria approach from being manipulated by a few wayward courts, Representatives Cannon and Dooley have included "venue fairness" provisions in their bills.²¹¹ …