Reply #7: Number of tort trials falls by nearly 80 percent

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http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3735553

Number of tort trials falls by nearly 80 percent
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WASHINGTON A government study finds the number of tort trials in federal courts has fallen by nearly 80 percent in less than two decades.

Tort lawsuits are those filed for civil claims such as injury.

Legal experts attribute the drop to Supreme Court rulings in the 1990s that made it much more difficult for people bringing lawsuits in federal courts to win.

President Bush signed legislation in February to have federal judges take most large class-action lawsuits away from state courts saying it was only a beginning in his drive to end "the lawsuit culture."

The head of the Alliance for Justice, which opposed that legislation, says the study shows victims of corporate misconduct may have "great difficulty obtaining redress in the federal courts."

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