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April 25, 2005
Partisan Judges and the Incentives of Campaign Contributions
Money influence in court?
Alex Tabarrok and Eric Helland expose the problems with partisan elections of judges. The Vioxx case is an application of their model.
The judge handling the first scheduled wrongful death trial over the pain reliever Vioxx received $60,000 in campaign contributions last year from political action committees funded by the law firm that filed the suit.
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Posted on April 25, 2005 05:28 PM by Vioxx68.
Filed in Personal Injury Resources under vioxx.
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