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To: tejek who wrote (301)	11/11/2002 6:39:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

Those are false - "This "and you wonder what's wrong with the world today?" whinge appeared on the Internet in May 2001. All of the entries in the list are fabrications -- a search for news stories about each of these cases failed to turn up anything, as did a search for each law case. " snopes.com But there are a lot of real cases of abusive and/or frivolous lawsuits so it makes the fakes ones believable. Snopes.com is a good source for looking up these stories to see if they are "urban myths". One other tibit of info that I got from that link "Additional Information: George W. Bush's first act upon becoming the Governor of Texas was to reform that state's civil justice system. In January 1995, just after being sworn in, he convened a session of the Legislature to tackle tort reform. Within weeks he signed bills to limit punitive damages to $750,000, cut down on "venue shopping" for favorable judges and juries, and made it easier for judges to impose sanctions on plaintiffs who file frivolous suits. " That sounds like a move in the right direction but it obviously only covers suits in Texas courts.