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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (171685)	8/15/2001 5:42:21 PM
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Who cares about trial lawyers? Anyone who ever has shopped at Wal-Mart: Sam Walton's chain gets sued almost as often as Uncle Sam, USA Today reports: By its own count, Wal-Mart was sued 4,851 times last year--or nearly once every two hours, every day of the year. Juries decide a case in which Wal-Mart is a defendant about six times every business day, usually in favor of the Bentonville, Ark., retail giant. Wal-Mart lawyers list about 9,400 open cases. No one keeps a comprehensive list of all the nation's litigation, but legal analysts believe that Wal-Mart is sued more often than any American entity except the U.S. government, which the Justice Department estimates was sued more than 7,500 times last year. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America even has a special group of 75 lawyers who specialize in suing Wal-Mart, the paper says. Complaints focus on everything from guns sold by the store to injuries allegedly stemming from "a shoppers' stampede when coveted 'Furby' toys went on sale just before Christmas in 1998." The company has taken the unusual tack of fighting many cases in court rather than settling. opinionjournal.com