I may take a pledge that I won’t talk to anyone about tort reform if they haven’t seen this documentary. If they can watch it and still support tort reform that’s fine. I would guess that they are probably well paid for their opinion.
It’s been interesting to see the initial lines of attack on Hot Coffee. There is some "movie reviewer" in Miami, that complains about cherry picked issues. His first couple of paragraphs is ……wait for it…….. Yes , cherry picked issues. He then goes on to write a piece that all of the #tcot’s can re-tweet. Tough to say if he sat down and actually watched the whole thing.
This movie covers:
– The Coffee Case (shows you where it happened, how it happened, and actually talks to a juror.) It also explains why you have never heard from Stella.
– Caps on damages. Telling the story of a identical twin that was brained damaged at birth, How a jury awarded 5.6 million dollars and the Nebraska liability cap took most of it away. It’s a hard cap that covers everything. Got 6 million in medical bills? Tough.
– The buying of judicial elections. How state courts have been stacked in favor of U S Chamber of Commerce bought judges.
– Mandatory arbitration clauses. Telling the story of of a female employee of Halliburton who was raped, beaten, tortured, and locked in a storage container in Iraq by fellow employees. Who was told she had no right to sue because of a arbitration clause in her employment contract.
These are real life examples that tort reformers don’t want to see and really don’t want you to see . It’s easier to just say it’s about those dirty rotten trial lawyers. No, it’s about real people that the U S Constitution was meant to protect.
Come on tort reformers, tea party members, constitutionalists, conservatives of every kind and type and watch this movie. You might learn something.
