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July 18, 2007
Rudy on Judges
Rudy Giuliani jumps into the web fray with a column in today's Pajamas Media on judges and legal reform.
Reform must also take place throughout our nation’s courts.Good stuff, and I think Rudy is enough of a scrapper to make this happen. My interest in Flirtatious Fred wanes each day he seems less serious about actually entering the debate, so for me the choice is increasingly between Rudy and Mitt Romney.A family dry cleaning business was recently dragged through two years of litigation seeking $54 million as compensation for a lost pair of pants. To make matters worse, the person who brought the irresponsible lawsuit was a judge. And though the family won their case, they spent more than $100,000 in the process.
This is just one example of the real costs of frivolous lawsuits. Civil litigation consumes 2.2 percent of America’s gross domestic product, more than twice that of other industrial countries. The annual price tag on a family of four is $9,827 per year. In the health care industry, many doctors report ordering unnecessary tests to avoid frivolous lawsuits – in Pennsylvania as many as 93% of doctors - costing up to $100 billion annually. Doctors call this “Defensive medicine.” I call it a Trial Lawyer Tax.
Posted by slublog at July 18, 2007 08:48 AM
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