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The BLT: Blog of Legal Times (7/23, Levine) reported, “Legal groups have been in the thick of legislative fights to overhaul the financial regulatory system and change liability laws in the wake of the oil spill, though their lobbying spending varies widely. Disclosure reports filed this week show the US Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform spent $3.75 million and the trial lawyers’ group, the American Association for Justice, spent $1 million, lobbying on dozens of proposals in the second quarter of the year.” Linda Lipsen, “the chief executive officer and lead lobbyist for AAJ, said the group is now focused on legislation related to the oil spill. ‘I think that right now, our attention is on what’s going on in the Gulf Coast, and making sure that victims of the disaster emanating from the oil spill are fully compensated,’ she said.
The Chamber has a history of spending a tremendous amount of money in an effort to limit people’s access to justice to pad the profits of corporate executives. The good, decent, honest corporate executives deserve the salaries they earn, but no laws should be made to augment those profits to the detriment of community safety and justice.
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