New research indicates legal debt keeps people homeless longer. "The human cost of this is devastating and there is an economic cost as well."

A potential ban on menthol combustible products would likely survive tobacco industry lawsuits—but it might take a while.

Sometimes the "witness" is a process or a machine. "How we think about evidence hasn't gotten with the times, and we need to grapple with these problems."

Laws that protect doctors who want to apologize to patients after a medical error aren't working—in fact, they make lawsuits more likely.

"The question is: Can we make the threat of damages high enough to be a deterrent?"

Public reports have understated due process mistakes and legal errors in the veterans' appeals process, research finds.

Southern courts favor physicians in malpractice lawsuits over facial trauma treatment, while courts in the Midwest favor patients, research finds.