"I got mine, screw you," Ted Cruz edition...
Figures, Ted Cruz got really rich getting people big punitive damages but he advocates "tort reform."
As a Lawyer, Ted Cruz Defended Huge Jury Awards. As a Politician, He Opposed Them.
In private practice, Cruz made money defending the kind of multimillion-dollar awards he has publicly decried.
As a politician, Ted Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas, has championed tort reform—the nationwide effort pushed by conservatives and business interests to restrict malpractice and other wrongful injury and death lawsuits, limiting how much a jury can award a harmed individual for pain and suffering and in punitive damages. When Cruz ran for Senate in 2012, his website declared he had defended a landmark pro-business tort reform law passed in Texas in 2003 that severely constrained the ability of consumers to sue medical professionals and nursing homes and to collect punitive damages in other cases. Cruz also boasted that when he had been a policy adviser on George W. Bush's first presidential campaign he developed Bush's pro-tort reform proposals. During the Senate race, the Texas Civil Justice League, a supporter of tort reform, enthusiastically endorsed Cruz. After becoming a senator, Cruz told the Austin Chamber of Commerce that Texas-style tort reform—which places a cap of $750,000 on punitive damages—ought to be a national law.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/ted-cruz-tort-reform-2016
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