'nother Non-Surprise: TX Supreme Ct Favors Business Over Consumers

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Just for documentation's sake of our intuitive knowledge, not for "surprise" sake.

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2193119

AUSTIN -- The Texas Supreme Court is aligning itself more strongly than ever with business defendants, according to a study of court opinions by a research group.

Insurance and corporate defendants won 79 percent of cases during the court's 2002-03 session while consumer plaintiffs won only 19 percent. There was no clear winner in the remaining 2 percent of decisions.

Court Watch, a project of the consumer research and education organization Texas Watch Foundation, looked at 47 out of 82 cases decided by the high court during its 2002-03 session. According to Executive Director Dan Lambe, those 47 cases pitted citizens, consumers, workers and patients against insurance, health care and government defendants.

Lambe said the 19 percent win rate for plaintiffs is the lowest in seven years that Court Watch has been releasing its study. It's also a significant drop from the 2000-01 term, when plaintiffs won 41 percent of the cases. ....

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[GOPisEvil]

1. Next you'll tell me bears sh*t in the woods.

Or, the Pope is Catholic.

;-)

Damn, I hate living in this state sometimes.

[AP]

2. Consumers need to move out of that state, and move to one run by

liberals.