--and alittle good news for a change--from Texas
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/268436/loser-pays-texas-small-business-wins-stephen-demaura
?Loser Pays,? Texas Small Business Wins
In a unanimous vote last week, the Texas senate adopted ?loser pays? tort-reform legislation, which says that a plaintiff must pay the winning party?s legal fees if their complaint is judged to be groundless. On Wednesday, the Texas house concurred. Governor Perry, who had championed the legislation from its inception, signed it Monday night.
Nowadays, even the $13 million the trial lawyers spent to defeat Perry and other pro-tort-reform Republicans in the 2010 election had little impact. In a stunning rebuke, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst stared down the trial lawyer lobby and shepherded the measure through to a 31?0 vote in the Senate.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/268436/loser-pays-texas-small-business-wins-stephen-demaura
?Loser Pays,? Texas Small Business Wins
In a unanimous vote last week, the Texas senate adopted ?loser pays? tort-reform legislation, which says that a plaintiff must pay the winning party?s legal fees if their complaint is judged to be groundless. On Wednesday, the Texas house concurred. Governor Perry, who had championed the legislation from its inception, signed it Monday night.
Nowadays, even the $13 million the trial lawyers spent to defeat Perry and other pro-tort-reform Republicans in the 2010 election had little impact. In a stunning rebuke, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst stared down the trial lawyer lobby and shepherded the measure through to a 31?0 vote in the Senate.
