Cost-Benefit Analysis — comparing lives to be lost with costs to trucking companies
Republican politicians are using cost-benefit analysis to justify opposing a rule that would make our roads safer — a rule to limit the number of hours that truck drivers can drive without adequate rest. If the political system doesn’t make roads safer, the tort law system will have to do it instead. And the trucking companies probably won’t be happy with that result.
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Tort reformers are trashing the Constitution
Governor Rick Perry’s comments at a CNN-Tea Party debate were notable for the statements that he made about gutting the Seventh and Tenth Amendments. These comments are giving him both political and doctrinal trouble.
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