Columnist Beth Quinn, inspired by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch’s annual “Wacky Warnings” contest (Jan. 6), is offering her own version. Elsewhere, it appears that trial-lawyer front-group Center for Justice & Democracy, which held its “First…

Back in January, I responded to a Bob Herbert New York Times column that attacked President Bush’s medical malpractice liability reform plan. Herbert had relied heavily on the “Center for Justice and Democracy” (CJD), a Naderite shill for the trial…

Last week, I referenced Sebastian Mallaby’s excellent column in The Washington Post, “The Trouble with Torts.” Yesterday, in response to criticisms from some quarters, he has another good follow-up, “Better Than Lawsuits: We Need a Smaller, Predictable…

In today’s New York Times, Bob Herbert again trumpets the ATLA line by claiming that President Bush’s proposal to prohibit punitive damage against drug companies who had complied with FDA regulations is “both unwarranted and dangerous.” (For our previo…

An acquaintance who’s a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America was kind enough to forward a recent email to supporters from that organization in which ATLA president Todd A. Smith boasts about the lobby’s success in getting…

I’ll be out of town through New Year’s, so I won’t be posting the rest of the week. For those interested in more reading, though, you may want to check out these two new entries from our friends at the…

The Center for Justice & Democracy, which claims to be “non-partisan,” has issued some awards this year, called the Zany Immunity Awards. They attempt to say that these awards are bad, but they are good for everyone except ambulance-chasing lawyers. …

Barney sat on the gossip-bench, He said, “I barbecued a dog On a tractor axle yesterday Down at the junkyard.”…

From Overlawyered.com comes the story that the anti-tort reform Center for Justice