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1/4/2009
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| For trial lawyers, the stakes are enormous beyond calculation this year
because the potential is there for tort reform to move from the extreme back
burner right up to the front depending on how a couple of elections go, said
Larry Makinson, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a
Washington nonprofit group advocating campaign finance reform. |
| Of course, the animosity between trial lawyers and Mr. Bush went back further
than Mr. Bushs candidacy, extending to his father. Many remembered President
George Bushs derision of trial lawyers in their tasseled loafers during the
1992 campaign, and the words still smarted. |
| Over all, trial lawyers raised $2.7 million in soft money donations for
Democrats in 1999, of a total of $49.4 million in soft dollars raised so far by
the party, according to a recent report from Common Cause, a Washington
nonprofit group. (By contrast, the Republicans got $2,800 in soft money from
trial lawyers, Common Cause reported, of $57.8 million in soft dollars over
all.) |
| Nonetheless, the American Tort Reform Foundation, a branch of the lobbying
group, has set up a Web site, www.triallawyermoney.org, to follow trial lawyer
donations called Tracking Trial Lawyers. The group has listed the biggest
trial lawyer donors as well as the biggest recipients of their largess --
basically a list of Democratic Party committees and candidates. |
| To trial lawyers, especially those involved in the tobacco litigation, Mr. Bush
has become their worst nightmare. He has made attacks on lawyers a campaign
centerpiece, pointing with pride to his record in Texas of curbing civil
litigation, capping legal fees and limiting jury awards. |
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