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Subject: Administration Presses Novel Effort for Tort Reform
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:52:16 -0500
From: Chris Miller <[email protected]>
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Administration Presses Novel Effort for Tort Reform
Cheney leads effort to attack lawyers
Kingsville, Texas (AP) --
Impatient with stalled efforts to close the courts to
litigants, the Bush Administration literally fired the first shot in
its groundbreaking "No Lawyer Left Standing" initiative.
Vice-President Cheney, hunting on a private lawyer ranch near
Kingsville, Texas, bagged an impressive buck (Harry Whittington, UT Law
'50). Under the new program, hunters may take one white shoe in-house
lawyer or three outside lawyers daily. There is no limit for trial
lawyers. "We've just got to thin the herd," said the Vice-President. "We've
tried tort reform and caps on damages, but people are still suing."
Cheney added, "It's easy and fun. In Texas, you can shoot in almost any
direction and hit a lawyer."