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		<title>Another Blow for ACORN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scandal-ridden ACORN  suffered another blow late last week when officials from Louisiana’s Attorney General seized computers, hard drives and documents at the group’s New Orleans office as part of an embezzlement and tax fraud investigation.  So if there’s an ACORN krewe at Mardi Gras, are the colors going to be pinstripe and orange jumpsuit?
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		<title>Update on Trial Lawyer Protection in Health Care Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I reported on the effort underway in Congress to punish states that have solved the medical liability crisis by enacting caps on non-economic damages.  Now, Congressman Henry Cuellar – a Blue Dog Democrat from Texas – won a “pre-emption” provision that would allow states with caps already on the books to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Evidence of the Trial Bar’s Powerful Influence in Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Liability]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard Dean has admitted that medical liability reform has been kept out of health care reform out of fear of angering the powerful trial bar. Apparently, this wasn’t enough payback for the legal titans, who funneled nearly $100 million to congressional Democrats in the last election cycle. Andrew Breitbart’s biggovernment.com uncovered the following provision, buried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Starting Point on Medical Liability Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Liability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[james wootton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kondracke]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[legal reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mort Kondracke calls on Congress to move on medical liability reform in a Roll Call article today.  He says a middle ground estimate of the costs of defensive medicine &#8212; where doctors perform unnecessary tests and procedures out of fear of being sued &#8212; comes in at around $100 billion a year or $1 trillion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Voice for Medical Liability Reform</title>
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		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2009/10/27/another-voice-for-medical-liability-reform.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Liability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Krauthammer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[legal reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Medical Liability Reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Columnist Charles Krauthammer makes the case for making medical liability reform a key component of our health care overhaul in an interview published in Der Spiegel.  In addition to being a Pulitzer Prize winner, Krauthammer is also an M.D., Harvard Medical School, class of 1975.  Money graph:
SPIEGEL: How could Obama still win Republican support for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Trouble At ACORN</title>
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		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2009/10/26/more-trouble-at-acorn.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a couple ACORN employees got caught advising two investigative reporters about how to avoid paying taxes on a brothel they wanted to start, ACORN’s leadership fired the employees and tried to chalk up it all to a few bad apples.
But a recent Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report, as reported in USA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arrogance of Power</title>
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		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2009/10/21/the-arrogance-of-power.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Washington Times article chronicles a decision by the Obama Justice Department to forbid Kinston, NC (population 23,000) from doing away with party affiliations in local elections.  The Justice Department concluded that having city council and mayoral candidates run on a nonpartisan slate “would violate black voters’ right to elect the candidates they want.” (The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Carolina Decision Highlights Need to Act On Punitive Damages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent South Carolina lawsuit highlights the problem of allowing emotionally-charged juries to award punitive damages with no guideposts.  The case involved a man who claimed his medical insurance was wrongly rescinded.  The jury originally awarded $186,000 for actual damages and a bad faith rescission claim.  Sounds reasonable.  But the jury tacked on an additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Washington Judges Stand Up For Democratic Judicial Elections</title>
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		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2009/10/14/two-washington-judges-stand-up-for-democratic-judicial-elections.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These days, when so many legal elites are actively campaigning to abolish judicial elections and insulate judges from their bosses (i.e. the public), it&#8217;s refreshing when two eminent members of the bar stand up for the rights of voters.  In a recent Seattle Times op-ed, Judge Deborah Fleck of the King County Superior Court and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth Reading: Blackwell On Voter Registration</title>
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		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2009/10/05/worth-reading-blackwell-on-voter-registration.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has a good piece in today&#8217;s Washington Times on how to reform our voter registration process and keep corrupt organizations like ACORN at arms length.  Money quote:
&#8220;By using technology to make voter registration more automated, we can save money and get rid of those groups that thrive by [...]]]></description>
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