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		<title>Lawsuit Abuse Must-Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Trial Lawyers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Manhattan Institute&#8217;s John Avlon has a must-read commentary in Forbes that documents how trial lawyers have turned the New York City government into a personal injury lawyers&#8217; full-employment program - all to the detriment of the Big Apple&#8217;s taxpayers.  Some highlights:

New York taxpayers      spent $568 million on lawsuits in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redistricting: A Peek Inside The Sausage Factory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary of State Watch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The drawing of new boundaries for congressional districts – known as redistricting – is one of the most critical, but least understood activities in politics.  The political insiders in state capitals who make the maps have a huge impact over who gets elected to Congress and how long those representatives can hold onto their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Merit” Selection Lobbyists Target Nevada</title>
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		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2009/07/14/merit-selection-lobbyists-target-nevada.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=655</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nevadans will vote next year on a proposed constitutional amendment that will abolish democratic judicial elections and replace them with a “merit” selection scheme that would give legal special interest groups the upper hand when it comes to picking judges.  Voters rejected a similar plan in 1988, reports a Las Vegas Journal-Review editorial.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle Continues In Missouri</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Better Courts for Missouri has launched a petition drive aimed to putting an initiative on the ballot to make the state’s judicial selection process more open and more accountable to the people.
As it stands today, Missouri judges are chosen behind closed doors by a committee dominated by trial lawyers.  In fact, according to Better Courts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor And International Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Wall Street Journal comments on an aspect of the Sotomayor nomination that has received little attention to date:  her disturbing willingness to consider foreign law in interpreting, what is, after all, the U.S. Constitution.  In a speech in May, she told an ACLU chapter that “’international and foreign law will be very important in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Auto Task Force Fails To Protect New GM From Tort Lawyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trial Lawyers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s editorial pages, the Wall Street Journal reports that Obama&#8217;s Auto Task Force tried to keep the new General Motors from having liability for future tort claims.  Chrysler was succesful in securing such an arrangement, &#8220;[b]ut 11 state Attorneys General and a group of tort lawys creid foul.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
In its original reorganization plan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Dissatisfaction With “Merit” Selection</title>
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		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2009/07/06/more-dissatisfaction-with-merit-selection.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are only a few days of vacation left, but I thought I would draw your attention to an Alaskan news story that is important, but is not about Sarah Palin.
Voters in Alaska have filed a lawsuit to dump the state’s “merit” selection process and give citizens a greater say over who runs the state’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN WATCH: Should they work on the 2010 Census?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I am at it, here is a link with an update on the on-going saga of ACORN&#8217;s problematic involvement in our national life.  Previously, voter registration fraud.  Today, the 2010 Census.
An excerpt:
Some Republican members of Congress want the U.S. Census Bureau to end a 2010 Census partnership with Acorn, the community organizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Rebukes Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ricci]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sotomayor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americancourthouse.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick break from vacation to weigh in on the Ricci-Sotomaor story.  The U.S. Supreme Court handed Judge Sotomayor an embarrassing rebuke on the eve of her confirmation hearings by throwing out her now infamous Ricci ruling.  Justice Alito’s concurring opinion (beginning on pg. 42) brutally exposes the raw identity politics at the heart of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Break; ACORN Changes Its Name to “Community Organizations International”</title>
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		<comments>http://americancourthouse.com/2009/06/22/on-break-acorn-changes-its-name-to-community-organizations-international.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pero</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I will be out on vacation through July 8th and therefore American Courthouse will be on a brief hiatus during that time.
One quick thought before I go, the Washington Examiner reports today that ACORN has decided to change its name to Community Organizations International because the ACORN brand has been “tarnished by investigations in at [...]]]></description>
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