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Federal Timber Harvests: Implications for U.S. Timber Supply

Description: The importance of federal timber has been debated at length over many years. The federal government owns about 20% of U.S. timberlands, concentrated in the west, and about 30% of U.S. timber inventory (and 44% of the softwood inventory). Declines in federal harvests in recent years, and legislation to end federal harvests, have led to concerns about the impacts on forest health and on the economy. The national impacts appear to be relatively modest, but local and regional effects could be subst… more
Date: March 10, 1998
Creator: Gorte, Ross W.
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Federal Tort Claims Act

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Date: December 11, 2007
Creator: Cohen, Henry & Burrows, Vanessa K.
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Federal Tort Claims Act

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Date: March 24, 2008
Creator: Cohen, Henry & Burrows, Vanessa K.
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Federal Tort Claims Act

Description: The Federal Tort Claims Act is the statute by which the United States authorizes tort suits to be brought against itself. With exceptions, it makes the United States liable for injuries caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any federal employee acting within the scope of his employment, in accordance with the law of the state where the act or omission occurred. This report discusses, among other things, the application of the Feres doctrine to suits for injuries caused by medic… more
Date: April 27, 2009
Creator: Cohen, Henry & Cohen, Henry
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Federal Tort Claims Act

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Date: September 2, 2008
Creator: Cohen, Henry & Burrows, Vanessa K.
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Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes

Description: This report considers the constitutionality of federal tort reform legislation, such as the products liability and medical malpractice reform proposals that have been introduced for the last several Congresses. Tort law at present is almost exclusively state law rather than federal law, although, as noted in the appendix to this report, Congress has enacted a number of tort reform statutes.
Date: July 7, 2008
Creator: Cohen, Henry & Burrows, Vanessa K.
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The Federal Trade Commission’s Regulation of Environmental Marketing Claims and Related Legal Issues

Description: This report examines the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) role in regulating environmental marketing claims under the FTC Act and other federal laws. It begins with an overview of the FTC's enforcement powers under the FTC Act, including their potential extraterritorial application to unfair or deceptive claims made by foreign entities outside of the United States' territorial jurisdiction. It then examines how the FTC has exercised its powers under the act and other laws in the environmental… more
Date: December 16, 2014
Creator: Murrill, Brandon J. & Dolan, Alissa M.
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