Protect Yourself from Government Ban on Lawsuits and Damages

While people focus their outrage on big ticket offenses by the Executive
branch, Congress is quietly destroying multiple public protections. We
did not send politicians to Washington to rig the civil courts against
everyday Americans, or to strip away legal rights guaranteed by state
and local governments. Yet last month, the House Judiciary Committee finished
up a day-long session, which it began and ended by voting out two bills
that would do just that: demolish plaintiffs’ rights. And for the
next two weeks, the House will be voting on these bills, hoping to remain
under the radar.

As consumer advocate Joanne Doroshow
eloquently put it, the House Judiciary Committee

“…voted out two anti-civil justice bills that no voters asked them
to pass. Even small businesses have made it repeatedly clear that these
are non-issues for them. They appear to be important only to the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce and paid business lobbyists, and a small number of
the Chambers’ super-rich industry members who have liability exposure
for harming the public and who pay the Chamber millions of dollars to
lobby for them.”

The Committee cites a medical malpractice crisis that industry experts
say does not line up to reality. They rushed these bills through the Committee
without a single hearing. No testimony was heard from anyone impacted
by any of these bills. As many consumer, labor, and legal groups
explains, one of these bills (H.R. 985),

“would annihilate class action suits in America. …Class action suits are
among the most important tools to enable harmed, cheated, and violated
individuals and small businesses to hold large corporations and institutions
accountable and deter future misconduct. H.R. 985 would eliminate that
tool.”

Politicians who are in the pockets of large corporations and insurance
companies have devised a plan specifically aimed at destroying our right
to hold those in power accountable for their misdeeds. Their plan is to
enact laws that will all but destroy your right to use the judicial system
to protect yourself. They have introduced bills which, if passed, will
enact arbitrary changes to courts all across the country, including:

• Limiting compensation for injuries caused by medical professionals (doctors,
  hospitals, nursing homes, and medical device manufacturers) to $250,000
  regardless of how much that injury devastated your life or the extent
  of malfeasance by the medical professional or company.
• Eliminating Individual States Law regarding lawsuits adn forcing all cases
  to Federal Court, which is more expensive for plaintiffs and places more
  burdens on plaintiffs.
• Allowing insurance companies to make “payments” rather than paying
  full compensation.

It’s pretty simple: big corporations that injure, defraud, violate,
and otherwise harm people, do not want to be held accountable in court.
But you, as consumers and potential plaintiffs, must push back to protect
your rights. You must represent to your members of Congress the public’s
strong belief that large companies would cut corners and risk the public’s
safety and economic security if corporate liability and accountability
were weakened, as each of these bills would do.

Wilson Law, P.A. has been protecting citizens of North Carolina by demanding
that everyone is treated fairly, regardless of gender, race, or economic
status. Please join us in demanding that Congress do the same. We must
ban together and contact our representatives to demand they say NO to
these outrageous attacks on our rights. Go to each link below and tell them NO!

• Class Action Lawsuits:
  http://www.takejusticeback.com/StopHR985
• Medical Malpractice:
  http://www.takejusticeback.com/ProtectPatients

AAJ has built a website that will help engage you to fight back against
Lawsuit Abuse week. This site has an online tool that will allow you to
automatically write or call your members of Congress, and provides talking
points that will help you explain why your representatives should strongly
oppose this bill:
www.takejusticeback.com/ProtectMyRightToFight.