Posted on 09/13/2008 6:51:19 PM PDT by jasonmyos
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's views on a bevy of national issues remain unknown, not the least of which is her take on the nation's legal landscape.
Leading tort reform advocates told Legal Newsline that they know little to nothing about the first-term Alaska governor's view on legal reform.
"I am not aware that Governor Palin has any record," said Philip Howard, founder and chair of Common Good, a bipartisan coalition that advocates for legal reform.
Palin's public comments on national legal issues have been limited to her comments blasting the U.S. Supreme Court for reducing the punitive damages award to victims of the Exxon Valdez spill, which left 11 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound after the Exxon tanker ran aground.
(Excerpt) Read more at legalnewsline.com ...
About as cozy with trial lawyers as Obama was with Larry Sinclair.
Interesting, informative article with little or no spin.
As to her reaction to the SCOTUS reducing the punitive damages award in the Exxon-Valdez case:
“She critiqued it harshly, but then again she is the Alaska governor, and they are the ones who suffered,” Copland said. “I understand politically why that would happen, but she is not a lawyer so I don’t know that I would have expected a real nuanced critique.”
Copland said he is interested in learning more about Palin’s legal philosophy, noting that Palin leads the only state in the union where lawsuit losers pay the legal fees and expenses of the winners.
The system is credited for discouraging frivolous lawsuits. Alaska ranks twentieth among all fifty states in the fairness of its litigation environment, according to an annual Harris Poll survey of in-house corporate counsels around the nation.”
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