Public health versus court-sponsored secrecy

Law and Contemporary Problems

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 131-140

  Givelber, Daniel J ^a   Robbins, Anthony ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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1. See, e.g., Frankl v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 181 N.J. 1, 853 A.2d 880 (2004) (rejecting an application by public interest and media groups and opposed by pharmaceutical and manufacturing groups for access to information revealed during pretrial discovery in a lawsuit involving allegations of tread separation in Goodyear tires).
2. Anita Kumar, Attention Shifts from Firestone to Ford, St. Petersburg Times, June 17, 2001, at A1, available at http://www.sptimes.com/News/ 061701/Firestone/Attention_shifts_from.shtml.
3. See Anthony Robbins & Phyllis Freeman, How Organized Medical Care Can Advance Public Health, 114 Public Health Reports 120, 122 (1999).
4. Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct: The Asbestos Industry on Trial 114 (1985).
5. Id.
6. See Kenneth Bridbord, Pierre Decoufle, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., David G. Hoel, Robert N. Hoover, David P. Rall, Umberto Safflotti, Marvin A. Schneiderman & Aurthur C. Upton, Estimates of the Fraction of Cancer in the United States Related to Occupational Factors, in Banbury Report 9: Quantification of Occupational Cancer, App. (Richard Peto & Marvin Schneiderman eds., 1981).
7. Richard B. Sobol, Bending the Law: The Story of the Dalkon Shield Bankruptcy 7-8 (1991).
8. Sheldon Engelmayer & Robert Wagman, Lord's Justice 81 (1985).
9. Sobol, supra note 7, at 11.
10. In some parts of the world, Bridgestone manufactured its Firestone tires with a nylon cap to prevent the loss of tread and had recalled the tires with the design flaw in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. U.S. regulators were not informed.
11. Memorandum of Law of Amicus Curiae Public Citizen in Support of Plaintiff's Motion to Compel and Opposition to Protective Order, Trahan v. Ford Motor Co., No. 99-62989 (61st Dist. of Harris County, Tex. Sept. 18, 2000), available at http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/ OpenCourt/articles.cfm?ID=1070.
12. See Phillip Cook & Jens Ludwig, Fact-Free Gun Policy?, 151 U. PA. L. Rev. 1329, 1333 (2003) (citing the role of scientific research and public awareness in causing the smoking decline).
13. Daniel Givelber, Cigarette Law, 73 Ind. L.J. 867, 881-82 (1998).
14. David Luban, Settlements and the Erosion of the Public Realm, 83 Geo. L.J. 2619, 2626 (1995).
15. Id.
16. Richard A. Epstein, The Disclosure Dilemma: Why a Ban on Secret Legal Settlements Does More Harm than Good, BOSTON GLOBE, Nov. 3, 2002 at D1.
17. Arthur R. Miller, Confidentiality, Protective Orders, and Public Access to the Courts, 105 Harv. L. Rev. 427, 480 (1991).
18. Richard A. Zitrin, The Case Against Secret Settlements (Or What You Don't Know Can Hurt You), 2 J. Iinst. For Study Legal Ethics 115, 116 (1999).
19. Id.
20. See Mathias v. Accor, 347 F.3d 672, 677 (7th Cir. 2003).