We look back with pride, and with some amazement really, at these great civil justice wins during the past decade. It hasn't been easy, and there are many to thank. (You know who you are!) Here are Center for Justice & Democracy's Top Ten Civil Justice Triumphs Of the Decade...

Forget President Obama, Harry Reid or Joe Lieberman. The most powerful people in the health care debate right now can be found on the 4th floor of the Ford House Office Building, a nondescript WPA government structure once used by the FBI to store fingerprint records. This is the Congressional...

It takes a skillful mind to sort out the hypocrisy of corporate America and their moguls when it comes to lawsuits. Take billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, for example, one of the largest donors to the biggest special-interest PAC in Texas, dedicated to "slamming courtroom doors" in the face...

Who hasn't pondered the terrible irony of soldiers who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan and survived, only to return home and be killed by an army psychiatrist at Ft. Hood? It's hard to grapple with something fraught with such gut-wrenching incongruity. Yet incredibly, a different but equally tragic irony has...

If you listened to the rants and harangues of those trying to kill the House health care bill on Saturday, you couldn't miss the endless blathering about tort reform, a term that almost no one really understands unless you happen to be a victim of medical malpractice or corporate wrongdoing....

It's always fun to see what politicians try to bury in fine print. I like to read the normally boring and often endless "definitions" section of legislation that others may gloss over when trying to understand the guts of a bill. Take, for example, the several hundred-page House Republican health...

Remember when all of those "conservative" Members of Congress and Governors screamed and yelled about the stimulus only to grab as much money as they could as soon as it passed? What do you call that kind of thing? Hypocrisy? Political expediency? Greed? Are we seeing a repeat of...

This week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's "tort reform" branch, with its friendly sounding name Institute for Legal Reform, held its 10th Annual Legal Reform Summit. Among other things, ILR issued some easy-to-follow instructions for states seeking to wipe out the legal rights of people injured by corporate wrongdoing, as...

In 1945, Congress gave the massively powerful insurance industry an astonishing gift. It bestowed on them the freedom to do what would be illegal in every other industry (save, strangely, Major League Baseball) -- fix-prices, collude and practice anti-competitive behavior. Now there's a movement afoot to repeal this extraordinary law,...