Category: Legal Reform

What Conservatives Think: Tort Reform: Was Bush Wrong to Say It Would Benefit the Economy?

The Left Says: "Arguing that his economic policies consist of more than tax cuts geared to the wealthy, President Bush maintained last week in his year-end press conference that tort reform is a key part of his 'pro-growth' agenda, saying ...
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What Conservatives Think – Tort Reform

Our new newsletter rebutting unfair left-wing descriptions of conservatives and conservatism debuts today. The first edition, What Conservatives Think - Tort Reform: Was Bush Wrong to Say It Would Benefit the Economy? answers this comment made by MoveOn.org in its ...
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Fighting Disease is Better Than Suing Over It

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The FDA may have severely undermined a group of personal injury attorneys looking to sue the makers of a new class of wonder drugs for schizophrenia. It turns out that the nation's premier drug regulatory agency recently agreed with the ...
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Legal Brief: Illegal Aliens Sue Employers for Offering Illegal Work; An Insult to Donkeys Everywhere; Americans Pay More for Lawsuits Than for Drugs

Illegal Aliens Sue Employers for Offering Illegal Work In America, the word "success" seems to be inscribed indelibly on the national consciousness -- the consciousness, that is, of everyone except a typical federal bureaucrat. It happened in the Clinton Administration ...
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An Rx for Our Ailing Health Care System: Caps on Lawsuit Awards; Eliminate Credit Card Debt With One Simple Lawsuit; Health Care System Would Benefit if Lawyers Worked on Hourly Basis

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An Rx for Our Ailing Health Care System: Caps on Lawsuit Awards Every once in a while, you hear a story you know you will remember for the rest of your life. On July 5, 2002, Tony Dyess of Mississippi, ...
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Asbestos Lawsuits Often Frivolous; Call the Police, Get Sued; Economic Damages Only 20 Percent of Award Costs

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Alien Tort Claims Act Used Against Poor Africans America's 34-million African-Americans should be outraged by the campaign of economic blackmail that a handful of profit-driven personal injury lawyers are waging against the financially beleaguered Republic of South Africa. Against the ...
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Alien Tort Claims Act Used Against Poor Africans; Even Socialized Medicine Harmed by Excessive Lawsuits; Lawsuits Literally a Lottery

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Alien Tort Claims Act Used Against Poor Africans America's 34-million African-Americans should be outraged by the campaign of economic blackmail that a handful of profit-driven personal injury lawyers are waging against the financially beleaguered Republic of South Africa. Against the ...
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Is a Basic American Freedom Being Violated?; Perhaps the Court Should Have Ordered the Team to Win; Why Not Protect Commercial Speech?

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Is a Basic American Freedom Being Violated? Not many people can boast resumes like Alabama Attorney General William H. Pryor's. Unfortunately, discrimination plagues him in the U.S. Senate and may block his appointment to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ...
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American Trial Lawyers Take Aim at Beleaguered South African Economy, by John Meredith

National Policy Analysis #489 /
America's 34-million African-Americans should be outraged by the campaign of economic blackmail that a handful of profit-driven personal injury lawyers are waging against the financially beleaguered Republic of South Africa. Against the expressed wishes of the revered Nelson Mandela and ...
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Fighting Disease is Better Than Suing Over It

National Policy Analysis #496 /
The FDA may have severely undermined a group of personal injury attorneys looking to sue the makers of a new class of wonder drugs for schizophrenia. It turns out that the nation's premier drug regulatory agency recently agreed with the ...
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