A online and media campaign exposing the vast number of liability-expanding provisions slipped into key legislation by the plaintiffs’ trial bar was launched today by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform. The site, TrialLawyerEarmarks.com, illustrates the breadth and scope of the trial lawyer agenda through a tangle of vines overtaking the U.S. Capitol Building. [...]
Web Site Exposes Earmarks for Trial Lawyers
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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Trial Lawyers in ‘Campaign of Concealment’
August 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Can you believe it? Trial lawyers around the country are engaging in a coordinated effort to conceal the identities of their professional organizations by changing the names of those organizations. At least, that’s what our friends at the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform tell me today in their news release, ILR Exposes Mississippi Trial [...]
Tags: · American Association for Justice, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Campaign of Concealment, Institute for Legal Reform, Trial Lawyers, U.S. Chamber
Edwards’ Message Condensed for Iowa Voters
March 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments
A Politico.com article details how the John Edwards campaign is mailing DVDs to more than 70,000 Iowa households this week. As a public service, Bob McCarty Writes offers a condensed nine-snapshot version of the “universal health care” talking points that appear on the video. Below each photo, Edwards campaign info appears in “bold type” while [...]
Tags: · Edwards, Health Care, Health Insurance, Iowa, John Edwards, Tom Vilsack, Trial Lawyers, Warning Labels, Warning Labels On Politicians
