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b. Proposals and critiques, 62
5. Bankruptcy, 67
a. Introduction, 67
b. The bankruptcy process, 67
c. Defining future claims under current law , 68
d. Defining future claims: NBRC and NBC proposals, 70
e. Estimating claims, 75
f. Estimation of claims in the A.H. Robins reorganization case, 76
g. NBRC claims estimation proposal , 78
h. Channeling injunctions , 78
i. Due process and future claims, 79
j. Bankruptcy and limited fund class actions compared, 81
k. Delays and emergency medical procedures, 84
6. Summary and conclusions, 85
B. Legislative proposals, 86
1. Introduction, 86
2. Professor Cooper’s “bold approach”, 87
3. American Law Institute Complex Litigation Project, 88
4. American Bar Association Commission on Mass Torts, 90
5. Rheingold dissent and proposal, 91
6. Comprehensive plans compared, 93
7. Critiques of the comprehensive proposals, 95
8. Choice-of-law issues, 96
9. Other legislative proposals, 99
a. Federal substantive law, 99
b. Federal substantive law: products liability reform, 100
c. Federal substantive law: wrongful creation of risk, 102
d. Federal substantive law: punitive damages, 105
e. Federal jurisdictional statutes, 109
f. Creating jurisdiction to issue a bill of peace, 111
g. Vaccine compensation-type program, 113
h. Amending class action rules, 114
C. Rule-making proposals, 116
1. Class actions, 116
a. Settlement classes and Rules Enabling Act limits, 116
b. Settlement class proposals, 119
c. Class action trial structure proposals, 122
d. Adequacy of class representation, 123
2. Ethics of mass torts lawyering and judging, 124
3. Conclusion, 126
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