Greedy Trial Lawyer
A Little Hypocrisy At Overlawyered?
Category: In Your Face
Ted Frank at Overlawyered takes on ATLA's attack on reform supporters.
Evan Schaeffer was very excited by the fact that ATLA made its Trial magazine attack on reform freely available on line, so I clicked over to see what the fuss was. The first story I looked at was Justinian Lane's "Corporate wolves in victims' clothing," which featured, among various baseless assertions and screeds about high executive salaries, the following strawman:And the next time someone brings up Stella Liebeck and the McDonald's coffee case, ask why a $2 million lawsuit over third-degree burns to a woman's genitals is frivolous, but a $5 billion lawsuit over Donald Trump's ego isn't.
Fascinating. What fictional reformer supports Donald Trump's lawsuit? Certainly not the main author of this site, who has repeatedly scoffed at it. Where's the hypocrisy? ... Lane's claim that proposed reforms wouldn't affect Trump's case is absolutely false; reforms such as anti-SLAPP laws, loser-pays, procedural streamlining, and limiting forum-shopping would all cabin the ability of a Trump to attempt to use litigation to intimidate critics.
Ted Frank apparently believes tort reformers are not hypocrites because it is remotely possible that some reforms would slightly impact lawsuits other than those brought by average Americans injured by wrongful acts. Ted needs to accept and acknowledge the true mission of tort reform, not the miniscule collateral damage that a few of its missiles might do to the Donald Trump crowd. Get serious, Ted. We all know what the impact is of a $100,000 or $200,000 cap on non-economic damages upon the claim of a young quadriplegic? We all know MONEY in the pockets of the big guys trumps JUST COMPENSATION for the little guys.
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