Tactics may backfire on amendment Thursday, September 4, 2003 Texas voters are being hit with mail and television ads for or against Proposition 12, a proposed amendment to the Texas constitution. If it passes Sept. 13, it would allow the Legislature to place limits on noneconomic damages in lawsuits. It also would clear the way for limits in medical malpractice lawsuits that lawmakers have already passed. The fact that the proposed amendment and 21 others will face voters on the second Saturday in September — rather than the traditional first Tuesday after the first Monday in November — was an...