Political Quotes

“I do not think it has that effect at all because, as I said earlier, if the plaintiff's case has merit, that is going to put greater pressure on the defendant to settle case because they know that if they lose the case, they are going to pay attorney's fees. Furthermore, because of the settlement mechanism that has been added into this bill, the effect is going to be to encourage a greater number of settlements. I would hope we would settle--if it is 90 percent now, I hope we get to 99 percent. There is always a reasonable position somewhere in the middle of these cases, and we want to have these parties to have every pressure possible to find that reasonable ground and keep them from tying up our courts with cases that do not need to be there if the parties would act rationally and settle them.”