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Appellate constitutional cases are all Cruz has tried.
He has never done Tort law.
“The Case of Cruz the Defender of Huge Jury Awards. During his political career, Cruz has been an advocate of TORT reform—the effort pushed by conservatives and business interests to restrict malpractice and other wrongful injury and death lawsuits and to limit how much a jury can award a harmed individual for pain and suffering and in punitive damages.
While running for the Senate, Cruz boasted that he had defended a pro-business tort reform law passed in Texas in 2003 that severely constrained the ability of consumers to sue medical professionals and nursing homes and to collect punitive damages in other cases. After becoming a senator, Cruz said Texas-style tort reform—which places a cap of $750,000 on punitive damages—ought to be a federal law.
Yet twice as a lawyer at Morgan Lewis, Cruz worked to secure $50 million-plus jury awards in TORT cases prompted by corporate malfeasance. These are exactly the sort of jury awards that the TORT reform Cruz has promoted would abolish.