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Backed by the state's tort reform group, the bills face an uncertain future -- at best -- given that both houses of the Legislature are controlled by Democrats, often sympathetic to trial lawyers who distribute huge amounts of campaign cash each election cycle.

Lawyers distribute other people's money. Maggie said (sorta) sooner or later you run out of other people's money.

California is running out of other people's money. What will the lawyers then distribute? What will the libtard politicians do when the lawyer money disappears?

Since there is a way to do anything, and since you can sue (and win) over anything, I don't understand why a class action suit cannot be filed by some brilliant lawyer against tort lawyers on grounds of damages to health and well-being that tort lawyers cause.

All it would take is one successful suit against a John Edwards type to reverse the trend, and in the process, the brilliant lawyer would become both famous and rich.

“Four ways to fix a broken legal system”

by Walter Olson on February 23, 2010

Author Philip K. Howard (The Death of Common Sense, Life Without Lawyers) gives a talk at the famous TED conference:

http://overlawyered.com/

From Publishers Weekly In his latest prescriptive survey of American law abuse and its consequences, Howard (The Death of Common Sense, The Collapse of the Common Good) sticks to the formula: one ghastly anecdote after another demonstrating how the justice system hinders freedom and confounds Americans who simply want to do the right thing. Either through litigation or the fear of it, Howard argues, we've ceded our everyday decision-making to the lawyers (we "might as well give a legal club to the most unreasonable and selfish person in the enterprise") resulting in everything from "no running on the playground" signs to a 5-year-old handcuffed at school by police; from diminishing health care quality and spiraling costs to doctors afraid of discussing treatments among themselves over email. Chair of nonpartisan advocacy organization Common Good, Howard has a great deal of knowledge and a catalog of abuses that will elicit fury and despair. For the third time in some 15 years, Howard agitates for change by asking "How did the land of freedom become a legal minefield?"; in this time of financial depression and political hope, Howard may have found the perfect moment to sound his alarm.