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Andrew Cochran's Blog – November 2011 Archive (4)

Bipartisan House Bills Uphold Holocaust Victims' Right to Day in Court

Tomorrow, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing titled, "Righting the Enduring Wrongs of the Holocaust: Insurance Accountability and Rail Justice," to examine the facts and circumstances underlying two bills. First, H.R. 890, the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act, would allow Holocaust survivors to rely upon state laws so they can have their day in court. It also requires…

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Added by Andrew Cochran on November 15, 2011 at 12:32pm — No Comments

URGENT: Senate Republican Leaders Demand Vote For Unconstitutional Tort Reform

I've written often here about the unconstitutional bill to crush states' and individual rights that Senate Republican leadership slipped as a special section into S. 1720, the "Jobs Through Growth Act." The section would impose a federal limit on awards in health care-related lawsuits (not just medical malpractice awards), and would establish a federal wage scale for just one set of American workers, the attorneys who litigate such cases for victims. Republican leaders added that section into… Continue

Added by Andrew Cochran on November 9, 2011 at 10:49am — No Comments

Romney memo: David Koch "financial engine of Tea Party"

The Washington Examiner has revealed that the Romney campaign thinks billionaire David Koch is the "financial engine of the Tea Party" and has therefore ensured that Romney will speak before Americans for Prosperity, a Koch-funded group, today.  I didn't know whether to laugh at that or cry; anyone who posts here regularly knows it's the last place to find one of the…

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Added by Andrew Cochran on November 3, 2011 at 10:04am — 52 Comments

"The Senate GOP Wage Control Act"

On October 31, I posted about the promise by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to veto a federal tort reform bill that is now included in the Senate GOP jobs bill.  Attorney General Cuccinelli joined a long line of conservative legal experts in opposing federal tort reform as a violation of states'…

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Added by Andrew Cochran on November 2, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

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