A Bonanza for Trial Lawyers

I am totally speechless! You would have to be absolutely brain dead to think about doing business in California.

Yhwhsman

What happens when you give lawyers Viagra?

They get taller.

Here would be an excellent step in product liabiltiy reform. Anti-"shakedown" laws. It should be illegal to make indiscriminate demands without supportable cases.

John and Ken on KFI in Los Angeles were instrument in shutting down the Trevor Law Group. Subsequently, they have been disbarred.

Try this .wav file for extortion and blackmail from PETA and their Bruce Friedrich at an Animal Rights convention:

http://tinyurl.com/hjhd

(condensed URL for convenience)

".....I do advocate it....."

"....for "animal liberation"....

Key words:

"animal liberation"

ALF: Animal Liberation Front

ELF: Earth Liberation Front

Both of these "Enviro-Nutzie" groups are no-member-list top domestic terrorist groups per the FBI.....

PETA admits giving them money.

Spinoffs from radical "Earth 1st", the Ted Kazinski "UNIBOMBER" nutcases group and PETA to avoid detection and prosecution.

original URL:

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/peta_quote.wav

Go To:

http://www.consumerfreedom.com

They have great info and will send email updateds on these crazies and their greedy attorneys if you want them to.

"SUBSCRIPTION", left sidebar

Who is behind these scams?

Quick buttons show Enviro-Nutzie groups and the celebities and wealthy people on their Board of Directors:

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/activistcash/

great thread!

Thanks for putting it up and for your comments.

Please "Cut & Paste" and email your relatives and friends

Any US business or consumer needs to see the dangers, scams, cash shakedowns, boycotts that turn into expensive "Enviro-Certified" labeled fish and foods, with high price tags.....

I am not with ConsumerFreedom.Com

I just support their good work and free in

If this works as the article states, you're right.

As a courtesy to folks wanting to actually read the article, the full text:

None Dare Call it Barratry

Daily Policy Digest

Legal Issues / Business Issues

Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Not content with class action lawsuits, some California trial lawyers specialize in demanding cash settlements from thousands of businesses in exchange for not suing them. These shakedown suits don't require allegations of injury -- or even the inconvenience of clients: just the threat of a lawyer armed with California's bizarre consumer protection laws.

California's pro-plaintiff law is a major disincentive for many companies to do business in the state, according to Walter Olson, author of "The Rule of Lawyers" (New York: St. Martin's, 2003):

The state's consumer-rights law, or "Business and Professions Code 17200," lets lawyers without any injured client at all sue businesses for practices that are either "unfair" or "illegal," including technical violations that regulators and prosecutors have already settled or view as trivial.

Lawyers can file valid 17200 suits that piggyback on a business's claimed violation of entirely unrelated laws, even if those unrelated laws make clear that private parties can't sue to enforce their provisions.

Roughly two dozen lawyer-controlled consumer groups have been formed to pursue such suits, say legal reformers.

Because of recent scandals, consumer law reform bills were introduced in the state legislature. But the state's trial lawyer group, which styles itself Consumer Attorneys of California, has proposed its own bills, which have passed both legislative houses in different forms.

Olson says the bills would expand the reach of such suits. For example, lawyers would have explicit authority to sue multiple businesses without knowing which ones have actually committed a violation.

They would also allow lawyers to demand all revenue that a business earned while an infraction was in progress, and would allow them to steer settlement funds to organizations that "promote justice," such as front groups with which the lawyers are allied.

Source: Walter Olson (Manhattan Institute), "The Shakedown State," Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2003.

For text
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105883311812979900,00.html

For Walter Olson's legal issues site
http://www.overlawyered.com

For more on Business Issues
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/leg/

Thanks, bttt. . .