Thursday, April 23, 2020

Reopening Economy Will Require Lawsuit Protection

Dan McLaughlin explains “State legislatures and Congress should act now to limit the threat of lawsuits so as to encourage economically and socially necessary activities that are bound to carry some risks. Doing so is a legitimate exercise of the power to make laws that allocate liability and decide what kinds of commerce, schooling, and public gatherings can proceed without government interference” (National Review).  

The subject also came up in Hugh Hewitt’s conversation yesterday with Senator Mitch McConnell, who said “Now the difficulty of achieving that with a Democratic House, you can understand. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Plaintiff’s Bar, and rarely do anything that discourages litigation. Generally speaking, they’re trying to create more litigation. So I don’t want to get your hopes up that this very necessary step could actually be achieved with a Nancy Pelosi-led House” (Hugh Hewitt). 

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