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A Rare Step in the Right Direction

California has made quite a reputation for itself, and not in a good way.

Case in point: the much ballyhooed addition of coffee to California’s recklessly broad Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, known as Proposition 65. The proposition “requires the state to maintain and update a list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.”

Anyone can file a lawsuit alleging that a company has failed to warn consumers of their exposure to substances on the Prop. 65 list, and as the Wall Street Journal reports, in 2018 lawyers made more than $27.25 million from Prop. 65 settlements.

So how did coffee— one of the most widely consumed beverages in America—land in Prop. 65’s crosshairs? According to the Journal, “In 2010 [Raphael] Metzger sued Starbucks and 90 other coffee manufacturers and distributors, claiming they failed to warn consumers about the cancer risks of acrylamide. Last year a Los Angeles Superior Court ordered the coffee companies to put cancer warnings on their beverages. Mr. Metzger sought as much as $2,500 in civil penalties for each cup of coffee they sold over at least a decade.”

It took another regulation, which takes effect October 1, stating that coffee isn’t a health threat to end the madness, a rare step in the right direction for California lawmakers. Nevertheless, the Journal reports that Metzger plans to challenge the new rule in court and seek retroactive penalties.

When will California realize that promoting a heavy-handed regulatory regime and turning a blind eye to activist judges and an unbalanced legal system is hurting its citizens by discouraging small business development and job creation? And, we ask, when will large public companies quit paying extorted settlements to lawyers who manufacture lawsuits rather than fighting them tooth-and-nail in the courthouse?

As we’ve discussed before in this blog, employers and families are fed up with dealing with California’s excesses and are fleeing the state for Texas and other states that provide a business and legal environment in which people prosper.

Maybe the assault on coffee will be the wakeup call California needs to start to change its ways. In any event, the state’s response to the coffee debacle is a step toward common-sense and reigning in an abusive lawsuit cottage industry.

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In case you missed it: Texas judges are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The nature of our state’s partisan election system requires judges to raise money to run political campaigns to serve. Because judicial campaigns are lower profile than other races on the ballot, few voters know about the judges or are willing to make contributions to their campaigns. Instead, the natural constituency for judicial fundraising is attorneys and law firms. But the idea of judges raising money from lawyers who have appeared or might appear in their courtrooms leaves a bad taste in many Texans’ mouths. Read and share: bit.ly/355ziMH ... See MoreSee Less

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A Rock and A Hard Place

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The nature of our state’s partisan election system requires judges to raise money to run political campaigns to be elected or re-elected to a seat on the bench. Because judicial campaigns...
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Trial lawyer ads are everywhere: television, the radio, even on social media. Many ads use blaring headlines, dire warnings, and even government agency logos to claim doctor-prescribed medications could be deadly... These ads promise big money if consumers sign up to sue. Read and share: bit.ly/357SEAR ... See MoreSee Less

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Misleading TV Ads Make Trial Lawyers Rich

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Trial lawyer ads are everywhere: television, the radio, even on social media. Many ads use blaring headlines, dire warnings, and even government agency logos to cl...
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Fuck you guys. It's Impossible to sue in Texas no matter what happens to you. Google a lawsuit in Tarrant County District Court 141 filed by myself where I'm fighting 20 attorneys.

They are the real problem. Mainly because they buddies in every legislature write the laws to favor them and not us! Fire them all!

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More than 500 cities and counties opted out of the unprecedented “negotiation class” proposed by plaintiff lawyers to settle sprawling opioid litigation, leaving 98% of the 34,458 U.S. cities and counties technically still in the class. Read and share: bit.ly/38pcGJ0 ... See MoreSee Less

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More than 500 cities and counties reject opioid class action, will pursue lawsuits on their own

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More than 500 cities and counties opted out of the unprecedented “negotiation class” proposed by plaintiff lawyers to settle sprawling opioid litigation, leaving 98&pe...
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