The Utah legislative session is almost over. As they say on Marketplace, “let’s do the numbers.” (as of mid-day yesterday) There have been 223 bills passed at the 2011 General Session. There were 498 House bills introduced and 132 substitute House bills. There were also 19 House concurrent resolutions, 49 House joint resolutions and four […]
A Modest Tort Reform
February 28, 2011 by
A Modest Tort Reform. One plaintiff’s lawyer (aka “ambulance chaser“) gives his take on Tort Reform (which doesn’t mean changing how you make confections…). A snippet: We go by all sorts of names: Trial attorney, victim’s rights lawyer, shyster, stupid, ambulance chaser and so on and so forth. You’ve likely heard about our kind a […]
Have you read the Utah constitution, lately?
February 23, 2011 by
Commentaries on the Utah Constitution | Equity of Law. When was the last time you reviewed the Utah constitution? Salt Lake Attorney Ben Lusty argues that in all the renewal of interest in the US constitution, we’ve missed the boat with state constitutions. But this rebirth of constitutional interest ignores the state constitutions. From this […]
the price we pay for not being born mud-turtles
February 18, 2011 by
“However, American conservatives are caught in the web of their careless antigovernment rhetoric. They are partially immobilized by their uneasy consciences about government power. This uneasiness derives from their libertarian tendency–from an economic predisposition pressed into service as political philosophy. This question must be asked: If conservatives do not want to use government power in […]
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