Proof That Our Tort System Works

Anti-consumer groups like the Pacific Research Institute and Alabama Voters Against Lawsuit Abuse, which are funded by big companies, are seeing their weak arguments for tipping the scales of justice in favor of rich CEOs and against citizens get even weaker.

The ruling of a Washington, D.C., judge in favor of the dry cleaners in the now-famous "pants case" is proof positive that the American civil justice system works well as is. In addition, the plaintiff, D.C. Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson, was ordered by the judge of the case to pay the defendants' court costs in the outrageous case.

Our civil justice system is designed to protect the rights of all parties, defendants included, and the judge's ruling in this case demonstrates how well the system works to weed-out frivolous lawsuits.

Anti-consumer groups like PRI and AVALA who are the labor behind the CEO-led takeover of the courts don't like that the judge's ruling in this case proves the civil justice system works for consumers who are in the right, no matter if they are bringing or defending a lawsuit. Will these same groups put as much energy and money in broadcasting the result as they did when the case was filed?

The overpaid CEOs of the billion-dollar corporations behind PRI, AVALA and other anti-consumer groups hate to see justice served, especially when it works against them. Is there a need for reform? Absolutely, it's called corp(orate) reform, not tort reform.

Source:  "Pants Case Shows System Working" by Bob Price, President of the Alabama Association for Justice, published in the Montgomery Advertiser.