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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 8, 2007

Funny Business

Forum Column - by Don A. Ernst - The latest study claiming to rank so-called “anti-business” state legal systems is another affront to the nation’s civil justice system in the campaign to eliminate corporate accountability for wrongdoing and negligence.

FORUM COLUMN

By Don A. Ernst

      Big business continually tries to undermine the U.S. civil-justice system through propaganda and underground public-relations attacks to sway public opinion against those fighting hardest to retain consumer rights.
      Groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Civil Justice Association of California are backed by huge corporate chains and have a politica...

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