Ted, Hillary and their Democratic friends in Congress are pushing for a bill that will allow employees to sue based on pay discrimination indefinitely. Recently the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision rejected a claim of pay discrimination made by a woman who had started working in 1979. They ruled that employees need to sue […]
From John Taylor of the Tuesday Morning Group in Richmond:
As you will undoubtedly remember, in the spring of 2005 we introduced the Freedom & Prosperity Agenda, an eleven-plank legislative platform that one might think of as a state version of the Contract with America.
In the 2006 session of Virginia’s General Assembly, ten […]
The battle for control of the Congress, the state legislatures and governorships has begun.
FreedomWorks volunteers are busy all over the country getting out the vote and injecting a free market message into the campaigns.
In Oregon our members are fighting for a tax cut for families. California FreedomWorks is fighting tax hikes on tobacco and […]
From today’s Washington Times editorial page:ÂÂ
In 1779, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Jefferson’s dictum, of course, never deterred Big Labor from using dues and collective-bargaining payments from members and nonmembers to finance a liberal […]
An article entitled Why Pay a Fraud Plaintiff to Sue? from the Washington Post online edition describes how Milberg Weiss LLP, the nation’s top securities class-action law firm, was recently indicted for recruiting fraud plaintiffs by paying them to sue. It turns out that lawyers’ fees and the other costs concerned with securities fraud lawsuits […]
The June 10 edition of the Wall Street Journal reports that Richard Levine, a doctor involved in asbestos litigation is fleeing his previous absestos diagnoses with haste.
Dr. Levine only last month signed an affidavit disavowing every asbestosis diagnosis he’d issued, claiming that he had no training in diagnosing the disesase. Dr. Levine, who had previously defended his […]
From Boing Boing, we learn that the most expensive Google ad keywords are:
$54.33 mesothelioma lawyers
$47.79 what is mesothelioma
$47.72 peritoneal mesothelioma
$47.25 consolidate loans
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$45.55 tax attorney
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From today’s Opinion Journal:
The product-liability veto, though, caused the most consternation in business circles. It started with the case of J. Steven Thomas, who claimed to have eaten paint chips containing lead pigment in the early 1990s. At that time, he lived in rental housing built in the early 1900s, when the use of lead-based […]
In this week’s edition of BusinessWeek there is a great article on how out of control America’s tort system has become. Some interesting points made:
Alabama radiologist George Martindale cursory second opinions- done without direct examination or medical history- were used as clinical evidence in silicosis claims. This was done without Martindale’s knowledge, […]
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