We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents from across Texas. We are small business owners, homemakers, and community volunteers. We are lawyers who want our profession back, and plant managers who want our companies to expand facilities to create jobs for Texans. We are consumers who want to eliminate the wasteful “tort tax” from the products and services produced in Texas. We are ranchers and teachers who have anguished over needless lawsuits. We are doctors and nurses who have seen colleagues abandon their chosen professions because of the emotional and financial toll imposed by legal assaults. We are the citizens of Texas who want a better future for ourselves and our children. We’re the faces of Texas…more than 16,300 individual supporters in 900 towns and cities, representing 1,255 different trades, businesses and professions.
What Texans for Lawsuit Reform Strives For, And Why
TLR’s objective is to restore litigation to its traditional and appropriate role in our society. A lawsuit takes a heavy emotional and financial toll on participants, and therefore should be the remedy of last resort to resolve disputes between parties. A lawsuit should not be used to win lottery-type riches for a lawyer and his client.
TLR has been working for more than a decade to create a civil justice system that discourages non-meritorious lawsuits or outrageous claims for damages. We seek to encourage quick and efficient dispute resolution. We want injured parties to be made whole by the party causing the injury at the earliest possible time. We envision a litigation system purged of intimidation, allowing plaintiffs to be fairly compensated and defendants to get a fair day in court. TLR strives for a trial environment in which the outcome is based solely on the merits of each party’s case.
To meet our goals, TLR is active in political campaigns (through the TLR Political Action Committee), in legislative advocacy, in public relations, in judicial selection, and in the development of case law.
TLR will continue to be fully engaged in legislative elections and in legislative advocacy to both preserve the tremendous gains that have been achieved and to enact additional much-needed reforms. The Texas Legislature enacted comprehensive tort reform in its 2003 session, building on reforms that had been passed in previous sessions, especially in 1995. The cumulative reforms of the past four legislative sessions will go a long way to building a fair, balanced and sensible civil justice system. Elements of the trial bar will tenaciously try to reverse these legislative gains. Opponents of tort reform will redouble their efforts to defeat pro-reform candidates at the polls.
Support of TLR is an investment in the future of our law, our economy and our society. We hope you will join us in pursuing our mission of providing a fair, balanced and predictable framework in which civil disputes can be resolved efficiently and justly.
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#ICYMI: Texas is well ahead of the nation on issues like this. We’ve been working for 25 years to keep our legal system fair and efficient, which is why Texas is the best place in the nation to do business. Come to Texas. It’s warm and sunny here. The people are enterprising, hard-working and friendly. Regulations are reasonable, taxes are low, and the civil justice system is fair and balanced. The opportunity to do business in Texas is limitless! Read and share the latest TLR blog: bit.ly/2FBnk3L
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The U.S. Supreme Court just heard argument in a lawsuit filed against you alleging failure to provide an adequate warning about one of your prescription drugs. You had asked the F...#ICYMI: “These people from out of state, they end up not showing up, they get shoved aside, they’re not involved in the process,” … Still, he said, the distant firms can walk off with a decent payday by scooping up and settling suits on a “mass basis” to compensate for the money they’re leaving on the table. “No one’s going to hire a Texas lawyer,” Danko said. So out-of-state firms find “a local straw man they team up with,” he said. He “does the advertising so it seems very local, but the money behind it is from Texas.” Read and share: bit.ly/2RkEYj0
Fire Destroyed Paradise. Then Lawyers Launched a Marketing Blitz
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In a conference room 13 miles from Paradise, California, Doug Boxer explains to survivors of the state’s worst wildfire why they should choose his law firm to sue PG&E Corp&perio...U.S. District Judge John Keenan dismissed New York City’s lawsuit shortly after it was filed, in part citing the hypocrisy of the city suing companies for producing a product it continues to rely on. “Does the city have clean hands?” Judge Keenan asked the city’s attorney, noting that Mayor de Blasio’s government, too, produces the emissions they say are responsible for the city’s climate change-related impacts. Read and share: bit.ly/2Hd2jP1
One Year Later, NYC’s Climate Lawsuit Wastes Taxpayer Money to Boost de Blasio’s Credentials
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On January 10, 2018, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he was suing five energy companies, seeking damages to pay for harm the city has faced as a result of climate c...
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About - Texans for Lawsuit Reform
TLR's objective is to restore litigation to its traditional and appropriate role in our society. A lawsuit takes a heavy emotional and financial toll ...
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An Open Letter
The U.S. Supreme Court just heard argument in a lawsuit filed against you alleging failure to provide an adequate warning about one of your prescripti...
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