The family claimed that Ford should have installed a safety device that would cool down parked cars. CSE advocates a legal system with clearly established rules, that honors contracts and allocates liability based on fault, not ability to pay. Trial lawyers declared themselves the de facto fourth branch of government. In a May 17 New Yorker article, Peter Boyle noted that trial lawyers are guiding the national agenda a new means of public policy making that can t be found in any civics book. Trial lawyers are robbing decent, honest, Americans of their money, trust, freedom and peace of mind.
People become afraid to volunteer for church and other community groups.
Once volunteers become preoccupied with the potential of being sued, everyone loses parents and communities, but especially the children. We can give back our legal system to decent, honest Americans with real grievances. CSE helped pass tort reforms in Florida, Alabama and Texas in 1999. CSE was successful in making tort reform an issue in the presidential primaries. In Most Cases.