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		<title>Have Coat, Will Travel &#8212; Lose Suit, Will Sue</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/11/have-coat-will-travel-lose-suit-will-sue.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lawsuit Abuse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trial Lawyers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[frivolous litigation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[legal reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[personal injury lawyer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Southeast Texas Record]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[trial lawyer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[William Ogletree]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do if you’re a Texas personal injury lawyer who forgets his $800 leather jacket at an airport when boarding a flight?
 
Well, since you’re a personal injury lawyer and owned an $800 coat, you could probably afford to buy a new one.
 
Or since you make your living bringing personal injury lawsuits you could&#8230;

Threaten to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Cheerios Prescription Is Ready</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/10/your-cheerios-prescription-is-ready.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/10/your-cheerios-prescription-is-ready.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tort Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[product labeling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Washington Times has kindly published an op-ed I authored, &#8220;Your Cheerios Prescription.&#8221;  The FDA is cracking down on product label claims it considers misleading and has threatened to force some products to go through the agency&#8217;s drug-approval process.
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		<title>More on the &#8220;Perception&#8221; Problem</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/09/more-on-the-perception-problem.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/09/more-on-the-perception-problem.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JudgesOnMerit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[judicial selection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Merit Selection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I responded to an item by the folks over at JudgesOnMerit (&#8221;Why Perception Matters&#8220;).  A closer reading turns up a number of other claims in the post that are false or misleading.  Here’s a quick debunking:
First, JudgesonMerit claims that under the plan the group supports, judges would be screened “by a non-partisan citizen panel representing the diverse spectrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Admission: &#8220;Merit&#8221; Selection Campaign is About Perception, Not Reality</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/08/another-admission-merit-selection-campaign-is-about-perception-not-reality.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/08/another-admission-merit-selection-campaign-is-about-perception-not-reality.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Justice at Stake]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[American Bar Association]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JudgesOnMerit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[judicial selection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Merit Selection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I did a little post on the ABA’s striking admission that the whole “merit” selection campaign is based purely on “perception” – not any real evidence that elected judges are “for sale” as most “merit” selection proponents claim.  Well, it seems to have struck a nerve!
Our friends over at JudgesOnMerit – the group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soros Targeting the Euro?</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/08/soros-targeting-the-euro.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/08/soros-targeting-the-euro.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Justice at Stake]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[George Soros]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=975</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As readers of AmericanCourthouse know, George Soros has helped to bankroll Justice at Stake, the group dedicated to replacing judicial elections with so-called &#8220;merit&#8221; selection.  Well, you might think that attempting to eliminate the democratic election of hundreds of judges in dozens of states would be enough to keep bazillionaire Soros busy.  Well, what ordinary humans might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling the &#8220;Merit&#8221; Selection Rock up the Hill in Maryland</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/05/rolling-the-merit-selection-rock-up-the-hill-in-maryland.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/05/rolling-the-merit-selection-rock-up-the-hill-in-maryland.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[O'Connor Judicial Selection Initiative]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Doug Gansler]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[judicial selection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Justice O'Connor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[maryland judicial elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Merit Selection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[William H. Murphy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters in Maryland have twice blocked attempts to disenfranchise themselves when it comes to selecting judges. They have twice voted down proposals to end democratic judicial elections and adopt a “merit” selection system.  But the “merit” selection crowd is pushing the rock up the hill once again – this time with the help of Attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another AHA! Moment</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/another-aha-moment.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/another-aha-moment.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Justice at Stake]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[American Bar Association]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bill Moyers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gavel Grab]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[judicial selection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Justice O'Connor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Merit Selection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[O'Connor Judicial Selection Initiative]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[William Weisenberg]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted an item on Bill Moyers’ PBS rant about Citizens United, calling out the lack of any proof behind his hysterical assertion that there’s now a “crooked sign hanging on every courthouse in America reading ‘Justice for Sale.’”  The Gavel Grabbers swooned, but also offered no proof to back up Moyers’ absurd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Reform Victory in SC</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/legal-reform-victory-in-sc.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/legal-reform-victory-in-sc.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tort Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cam Crawford]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[legal reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Carter Wood, once again, is on top of the latest legal reform news - this time with his ShopFloor hat on.  Yesterday legislators in the South Carolina House overwhelmingly passed legal reform legislation in an effort to attract more business and capital investment to the state. 
For more on the state of legal reform efforts in South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AG Blumenthal: Lawsuits &#8220;Create Jobs&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/ag-blumenthal-lawsuits-create-jobs.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/ag-blumenthal-lawsuits-create-jobs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lawsuit Abuse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cater Wood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Research Institute]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Point of Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Richard Blumenthal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Carter Wood over at Point of Law posted a little gem yesterday. Wood reports that Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut&#8217;s long-time attorney general and now a candidate for governor, recently made the extraordinary claim that all those lawsuits he&#8217;s filed over the years &#8220;actually create jobs.&#8221;  Well, knock me over with a feather.
For those interested in something closer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Judicial Elections: Common Sense From Ohio&#8217;s Bench</title>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/03/ohio-judicial-elections-common-sense-from-ohios-bench.html</link>
		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/03/ohio-judicial-elections-common-sense-from-ohios-bench.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ohio judicial elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ohio state supreme court]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Moyer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ohio Chief Justice Thomas Moyer’s campaign to abolish democratic judicial elections has run into strong opposition from his colleagues on the state Supreme Court.  In a Columbus Dispatch article, Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton said judicial elections are “open and transparent” and made the common sense observation that:
“… people are smart enough and there’s enough information [...]]]></description>
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