What Others Are Saying


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

From Texas

"Despite the reforms adopted by the 2003 Legislature, many in the national business community still regard the Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf Coast as unreasonable legal environments due to the high number of lawsuits, large awards and unfair day-to-day practices concerning class certification, discovery, evidentiary rulings and jury instructions."

"Attitudes about Texas' legal climate will only improve once the courts in these individual jurisdictions begin complying with the spirit and letter of the law."

Tom Donohue, President and CEO,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

"Lawsuit abuse is one of the greatest job killers in America today. Personal injury trial lawyers have turned a legal system designed to resolve disputes into their own personal investment vehicle to strike it rich. They turned that system from one intended to dispense justice to a new kind of lottery that dispenses jackpot justice."

Texas Governor Rick Perry

 

"There's no way for us to protect ourselves...Someone falls off a piece of lumber and they hurt themselves and they sue us, what do we do? There's no protection."

Jerry Lightfoot, Vice President,
Orange County Building Materials, Vidor, Texas

 

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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

"Despite the reforms adopted by the 2003 Legislature, many in the national business community still regard the Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf Coast as unreasonable legal environments due to the high number of lawsuits, large awards and unfair day-to-day practices concerning class certification, discovery, evidentiary rulings and jury instructions."

"Attitudes about Texas' legal climate will only improve once the courts in these individual jurisdictions begin complying with the spirit and letter of the law."


Tom Donohue, President and CEO,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce


"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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