Posted on 09/18/2009 2:14:13 AM PDT by Ja7430
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)--California trial lawyers are expected to shell out big bucks to help their allies get elected in 2010, observers say.
If the first six months of the year is any indication of things to come, the Civil Justice Association of California says plaintiffs attorneys are poised to give candidates for the state Legislature and statewide office, including attorney general, huge sums of money.
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Things were better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not.
Trial lawyers buying candidates has become standard practice. I had hoped than non-lawyers Bush, Cheney, Hastert, Frist might push tort reform but they did not.
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