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Ron Wyden: “I am saying that our proposal protects State contract law with respect to economic losses. It seems to me that the…”

On the recordJune 9, 1999
I am saying that our proposal protects State contract law with respect to economic losses. It seems to me that the gentleman's proposal, in wanting to change existing State contract law, is clearly moving us in a different area which legal experts have come to describe, pretty arcanely, as the notion of tortifying contract law doctrine, yes.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Discussing the implications of a proposal on State contract law.

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