Bring Juries Back To Texas

These days, you cannot turn on the internet without some ad, popping up about “lawsuit abuse.” Similar billboards dot the highways, and are on the sides of buses.

Over the last two decades, millions of corporate dollars have poured into this “tort reform” campaign; and President Bush has become its “Cheerleader-in-Chief.”

It is a sophisticated operation to convince the public it is their best interest to limit lawsuits, and ultimately to severely limit jury trials. Isolated examples of abuses are used to wrongly generalize a justice system out of control. The examples often are incomplete, embellished, riddled with half-truths