Political Quotes

“The gentleman is correct. While the idea underlying this has a good purpose of attempting to encourage settlement, it is an unfair situation to impose upon the parties to lawsuits because of the fact that it has many unintended consequences and, finally, because of the fact that, when an attorney has somebody walk in the door, they do not know whether it is a good case or not. They have to conduct a lot of investigation in these cases, and, when they do that, they never get compensated for the cases that do not have any merit. They are taking a risk in practicing that type of law, and I think that we want the people to take risks. This is counter to the purpose of the loser pays amendment in that respect, but it is separate and apart. I would not say it does anything to loser pays. It creates a separate mechanism, but one that, I think, is fraught with a lot of unintended consequences, and I would urge my colleagues to vote against it.”