What Others Are Saying


Key leaders across California and America are speaking out on Legal Reform!

From California

"California's runaway litigation system has become a trial lawyer's paradise--encouraging frivolous lawsuits and outrageous settlements that are bleeding money from businesses while driving the cost of virtually everything higher for average consumers."

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
October 2003 Campaign Position Paper 


"Soaring, unpredictable punitive damage verdicts have alarmed judges and policy makers across the country.  The state should address the problems of punitive damages instead of becoming an accomplice in making them worse."

Jeff Sievers,  Vice-President-Legislation
Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC)
October 2, 2006


"The class-action system isn't perfect, and a very real need exists to shake things up."

David Lazarus, Columnist
San Francisco Chronicle
September 27, 2006

 

"As Governor, I will reform Section 17200 of the Business and Professional Code... The Unfair Competition Law, allows individual lawyers to sue companies on the behalf of the public for illegal or deceptive business practices. This law is valuable as consumer protection, but lawyers have abused it to extort settlement money from businesses, who pass the cost on to consumers."

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
On the "Restoring California's Economic
Competitiveness"

 

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From Across the Country

"Another threat to economic security is junk lawsuits. Frivolous lawsuits help drive up the total costs of America's tort system to more than $240 billion a year. That's a burden far greater than any other major industrialized nation, by the way. In order to remain competitive, in order to keep jobs here in America, in order to make sure that people can make a decent living, we got to do something about these junk lawsuits.

...These junk lawsuits cost people jobs and they raise your prices... Legal reform is a necessary part of keeping this economy going"

President George W. Bush
June 22, 2005


"This measure is a common-sense measure.  It will ensure that people have a right to sue when harmed, and at the same time the bill will put an end to suits that leave consumers with pennies and small businesses with needless legal bills.  This is a carefully crafted measure that will benefit our economy and ensure some basic fairness when it comes to class-action lawsuits."

U.S. Senator Christoper Dodd (CT)
February 10, 2005
At the Senate passage of Class Action Reform Legislation

 

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