Dan Burton: “I believe that if there is a frivolous lawsuit filed there ought to be a penalty assessed on the plaintiff. I believe…”

“I believe that if there is a frivolous lawsuit filed there ought to be a penalty assessed on the plaintiff. I believe that should be the case. I do not believe, however, it should be a 100 percent losers paying totally, and the reason I say that is because I have known a number of people who have been involved in litigations of this type who have had a legitimate lawsuit, and because of the jury or because of the judge or for whatever reason the ruling was against them, and they were not in a position to be able to pay exorbitant legal fees on the part of the defendant. Many times these defendants are lawyers for large corporations who can drag these suits on for long periods of time and spend an awful lot of money. ... So I believe that there ought to be some middle ground. And that middle ground is exhibited in my amendment, and my amendment says that if the plaintiff loses the case, there is a 25-percent penalty.”