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Project Lawsuit Abuse Newsmakers

Nov 4th, 2011 by Project Lawsuit Abuse

Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet over the past few days. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts that hit over the past week. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country:

• Bob Huff Named Legislator of the Year by CALA
“Senator Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) was named Legislator of the Year by Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, and was honored during a recent ceremony in Irvine.” Diamond Bar Patch

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Project Lawsuit Abuse Newsmakers

Sep 14th, 2011 by Project Lawsuit Abuse

Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet over the past few days. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts that hit over the past week. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country:

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Project Lawsuit Abuse Newsmakers

Sep 6th, 2011 by Project Lawsuit Abuse

We’ve done it again! Project Lawsuit Abuse took the liberty of rounding up some of the lawsuit abuse news that hit over the past week. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country:

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Playgrounds aren’t looking like they used to…

Aug 4th, 2011 by Todd Lamb

Legendary Ohio State Football coach Wayne “Woody” Hayes was an old school football coach from the 1950’s to the 1970’s. He was skeptical of a play that we now take for granted in football — the forward pass. He is famous –- and factually accurate — for saying, “There are three things that can happen when you pass the football, and two of them are bad.”

School officials over the years have probably said the same about the playgrounds at their schools and the results that occur when students play on merry-go-rounds, monkey bars, and teeter totters.

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Job Situation Not Looking Good in Maryland: Consider Lawsuits

Jul 25th, 2011 by Todd Lamb

Recently, the Baltimore Sun editorial team put the best spin it could on the State’s less than stellar job creation performance.

Indeed, the numbers are so pathetic even the Sun can’t make them look acceptable. In citing Maryland’s –worst in the nation – job numbers, editors downplayed the results and preemptively ridiculed the “usual suspects” that suggest the reasons for these dismal job numbers are the result of “[t]oo-high taxes, too-much regulation, too-many mandates.”

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Legislative Round-Up

Apr 11th, 2011 by Project Lawsuit Abuse

Here’s a run-down of recent happenings on the state legislative front:

Arkansas – False claims act legislation went to Governor Beebe for approval

Indiana – Attorney general sunshine legislation reported favorably out of committee

Maryland – Rules Committee to consider report on comparative fault

Montana – Attorney general sunshine legislation reported favorably out of committee

Nevada – Lawsuit lending bill scheduled for hearing this week

North Carolina – House Select Committee on Tort Reform to meet

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Sue-Your-Boss Hotline

Feb 22nd, 2011 by Todd Lamb

The Obama administration recently announced the creation of a program that is tantamount to a lawsuit referral service, which will direct employees to lawyers who will help them sue their bosses.

About 40,000 workers contact the Department of Labor with complaints about their bosses every year. The department is unable to return about 10 percent of those calls due to budget constraints. So instead of providing more funding, the White House has announced a service that will forward "unresolved complainants" to a lawyer referral service sponsored by the American Bar Association.

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Maryland Watchdog Group Takes Its Message to the Statehouse

Feb 3rd, 2011 by Project Lawsuit Abuse

MDCALA's mobile billboardMDCALA's mobile billboard

Maryland Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (MDCALA) has launched a campaign to take the stop lawsuit abuse message directly to the front doorstep of Maryland's legislators. Starting yesterday, a MDCALA-sponsored mobile billboard truck began circling the Statehouse in Annapolis displaying the message:

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Guest Blogger: Darren McKinney, American Tort Reform Association

Dec 14th, 2010 by Project Lawsuit Abuse

Editor's Note: Project Lawsuit Abuse regularly highlights lawsuit abuse news from across the country. Today, Darren McKinney, Director of Communications at the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), is contributing a guest post on ATRA's annual "Judicial Hellholes" report.

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Maryland Delegate has a Question for the Trial Lawyers

Sep 30th, 2010 by Project Lawsuit Abuse

Today, at a hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., the governing body of the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) will get together for a three-day meeting, where they will discuss topics such as the Association’s policies and their hefty budget. We took to some of our supporters to see what they wanted to ask the trial lawyers as they head into their meeting.
 
Here’s what Maryland Delegate Ron George wanted to ask the lawyers at the AAJ conference:

What questions do you want to ask the trial lawyers? Sound off in the comments!

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