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Posts Tagged pain and suffering

Trial Lawyers Fight Proposals for Tort Reform

By | 09.09.09 | 1:54 pm

The American Association for Justice — formerly known as the American Trial Lawyers Association — is gearing up to defend against proposals for tort reform as the answer to the high cost of health care.

“Limiting the legal rights of patients will do nothing to  lower the costs More…

The More You’re Waterboarded, the Less Like Torture It Is

By | 04.27.09 | 12:46 pm

According to Andy McCarthy, senior fellow at the National Review Institute, the idea of calling waterboarding torture is just silly. And the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohamed was waterboarded 183 times just reinforces how ridiculous calling it “torture” really is.

As he said on a conference call with reporters organized More…