[TaxRelief]

There is one more attack that must be made to prevent these frivolous lawsuits and that is the jury selection process. Juries are typically make up of bleeding heart types for two reasons: (1) business people and conservatives are notorious for doing every thing they can to avoid jury duty and (2) those left to serve are the unemployed, the community-conscious liberals, those on Social Security, those on the dole of some sort and (progesterone charged) stay-at-home Moms who are suckers for a "hurt kid" story.

No offense meant to common-sense FReeper moms.

[Beck_isright]

You're on the money. But the stay at home moms are rarely selected because they are usually too conservative for liberal lawyers and judges. We who are self-employed avoid jury duty because while many who sit there get compensated by their employers, we don't get a week's pay unless we are out there earning it.
You have hit a home run though. The jury system is broken.