Tort Deform

[dorktv]

Is that a good way of describing the Right's assault on our right to sue crappy companies?

[Zeke]

1. Here's What...

One of Bush;'s daughter's will get car-smaashed by a drunk-driving
Exxon truck driver steering an 18-wheeler through a red light, causing Bush's daughter to need life support another 50 years, and his daughter gets is about $200 thousand.

That won't evebn cover his daughter's lawyer fees.

The tort reform was just corporate prectionism from everyone and eveything---it's criminal.

[dorktv]

2. Yes but my question was should we call it tort DEFORM...

you know...reframing the issue?

[Zeke]

3. I Hear Yuh...

But 18 f---ing Democrats voted for the damn
bill, helping Bush yet again with a victory.

That's the problem with the Dems: they bitch and moan
about nominees and legislation, then turn around
and vote for Bush's wants!

18 Democrat Senators voted for it!

I don't know what to say anymore.

[dorktv]

4. Well...what do you want us to do? Take them to the woodshed or something?

[Zeke]

5. If I Were King...

I'd start a movement running real Democrats against
incumbant, worthless "Democrats" like we have now.

But we can start in the woodshed, yeah.

[davidgmills]

6. I've been a plaintiff's tort lawyer for 23 of my 27 years of practicing

law and it just keeps getting worse. I yearn for the days when I read cases about how the law was to be liberally construed in favor of the worker. Time and time again I now face laws and decisions that favor the corporations over the individual and it just keeps getting worse.

I tell juries that we are told that we can't put a price on a human life, that a human life is priceless. I also tell them that if they can't put a price on human life, they are saying that a human life is worthless.

That's what the corporations want us to think. That a human life is worthless.