civil justice task force ALEC

<div>=</div><div>neglected?</div><div>see tort reform</div><div>see class action</div><div>
</div><div>color below</div><div>=yikes<a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/06/exxon-mobil-progressive-policy-institute-climate/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/06/exxon-mobil-progressive-policy-institute-climate/</a>kate a<div data-reactid="207" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">PROGRESSIVE POLICY Institute, a centrist Democratic think tank that grew out of the party’s pro-business wing in the 1980s and ’90s, received $50,000 from Exxon Mobil in 2018 via its parent organization, the Third Way Foundation, according to the oil giant’s 2018 Worldwide Giving Report.Exxon Mobil did not return The Intercept’s multiple requests for comment. In an email, PPI Executive Director Lindsay Lewis said the money was used for general support and that “we only accept general support funding from corporate interests, we do not do paid for work/research or have any donor run programs.”Lewis also confirmed that this is the first time Exxon Mobil has donated to the Third Way Foundation. Though it’s a first, PPI’s new donor isn’t so dramatic a shift from its fundraising record. The Intercept’s Akela Lacy has also <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/04/26/medicare-for-all-democrats-phrma/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">found</a> that PhRMA — the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — has annually donated between $25,000 and $75,000 to the Third Way Foundation since 2009, upping its donation to $265,000 in 2016 — the same year that Medicare for All, which the trade group and PPI both oppose, entered the national spotlight. Donations dipped back to normal levels in 2017, although documents were not yet available for 2018 when the piece was published in late April.</div><div data-reactid="209" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">In the last couple years, Exxon has taken up softer messaging on climate than either the Koch brothers or the Mercer family. With business all over the world, Exxon — like every other multinational oil company — is well-accustomed to operating in environments where denying the reality of the climate emergency outright is politically unthinkable. As climate concerns spike around the U.S., the company is still plenty opposed to environmental regulations and the lawsuits being lobbed its way from climate-vulnerable communities and attorneys general, who are each calling into question Exxon’s rule in fueling both the climate crisis and misinformation campaigns about it. Rather than paying people to say that there’s no problem at all, it can rebrand as a good-faith actor in the climate fight with paeans to carbon capture technology, low-carbon fuels (algae!), and carbon taxes that also conveniently exempt it from some of the lawsuits and regulations it’s most worried about. The decades of climate denial Exxon helped fund — and now the Trump administration — have dragged the national debate on climate change so far into the gutter that there are influential liberals willing to give the company credit simply for not denying the science.This all dovetails well with a centrist approach to climate politics that’s long sought common ground with industry and harbors both temperamental and ideological opposition to big, confrontational proposals like the Green New Deal. The upshot is that they’ve started to sound a lot alike. Carbon capture, R&D, and carbon pricing — while not mutually exclusive with the Green New Deal framework that the Sunrise Movement, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others have begun to flesh out — have reliably been wielded as a cudgel by establishment types against calls for more sweeping action.Kert Davies, founder and director of the <a href="https://climateinvestigations.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Climate Investigations Center</a>, noted that the report indicates the money PPI received was through a “corporate” grant, rather than through the ExxonMobil Foundation. “We have never sussed how these two black boxes of money are managed or dolled out. So if you grab the ExxonMobil Foundation 990s, there are sometimes different descriptions or breakdowns of the funding, but this grant won’t be there,” he wrote in an email. “There is no need for public accounting of such grants. No obligation. But they have seemed compelled to disclosed them through the years.” Of course, $50,000 is not an enormous amount of money either for PPI or Exxon Mobil. But it may well signal a shift in the fossil fuel industry’s relationship to climate politics. </div><div data-reactid="212" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In March, [who?] Goldberg co-authored a <a href="https://gainnow.org/2019/03/20/gain-coalition-report-finds-tort-law-can-be-used-to-hold-unlawful-anti-pipeline-protesters-accountable/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box;">report</a> for the industry front group Grow America’s Infrastructure Now on how to bring legal action against anti-pipeline organizers. “Allowing vigilante regulation to go unchecked undermines our democracy. We honor civil protests in this country, but we should not have to accept improper efforts to overturn the rule of law,” Goldberg said in a press release. “People who violate the law by improperly interfering with legitimate business activities, even to advance a political or public policy preference, can be held accountable for their actions through civil litigation.” While not disclosed on the group’s website, GAIN spokesperson <a href="https://www.dcigroup.com/leaders/craig-stevens/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Craig Stevens</a> is a partner at the DCI Group, which specializes in astroturf campaigns that have fought everything from anti-smoking laws to climate legislation. From 2005 through 2016, Exxon Mobil was a DCI client. In another detail not mentioned on the GAIN site, the group’s strategic adviser is James “Spider” Marks, who as of 2017 was the advisory board chair of the security firm TigerSwan, which — as The Intercept has <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box;">documented</a> extensively — engaged in “military-style counterterrorism measures” against anti-pipeline protesters.For years, Exxon Mobil prolifically funded climate denier groups like the Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute. Under pressure, the company <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2799777-ExxonMobil-2007-Corporate-Citizenship-Report.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">pledged</a> to stop funding deniers in 2007, although it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/15/exxon-mobil-gave-millions-climate-denying-lawmakers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">kept bankrolling</a> politicians who deny the reality of the climate crisis. Exxon also still support right-wing think tanks like the Manhattan Institute, which received $970,200 from Exxon between 2008 and 2018. As recently as 2011, MI Senior Fellow Robert Bryce said “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203388804576612620828387968" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">the science is not settled</a>” on climate change. Another MI Senior Fellow, Oren Cass, last year — the year after three of the five most expensive hurricanes to have ever hit the Atlantic — authored a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180305212714/https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/overheated-10929.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">report</a> arguing that the potential costs of climate change are overblown, suggesting that many people <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/14/wall-street-journal-cass-oren-manhattan-institute-climate-scenarios-heat" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">prefer warmer temperatures</a> and could adapt easily to global warming. In addition to Exxon, MI is — like other flagrant denier groups — funded by the Mercer Family Foundation; Rebekah Mercer, a key financier of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, runs the foundation and sits on the MI board.  Exxon also continues to give large donations the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and remains a member of the American Petroleum Institute, each of which has fought hard against environmental regulations and climate measures. The oil company only left the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council in 2017, four years after it pushed <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/oklahoma-colorado-and-arizona-push-alec-bill-to-require-teaching-climate-change-denial-in-schools-abfa67acb2ad/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">model legislation</a> in Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona that described global warming as a “theory.”Itai Vardi reported at <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/06/20/democratic-think-tank-progressive-policy-institute-climate-lawsuits" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box;">DeSmog</a> this summer that Phil Goldberg, director of PPI’s Center for Civil Justice, has come out swinging against climate lawsuits being brought by cities and states against fossil fuel companies. The law firm at which Goldberg is a partner — Shook, Hardy & Bacon — defended the tobacco industry <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/20/news/tobacco-its-middle-name-law-firm-thrives-for-now.html?pagewanted=all" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box;">for decades</a> and was the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-15-fi-9180-story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box;">inspiration</a> for the fictional firm Smoot, Hawking in the 2005 film “Thank You For Smoking.” As a slew of lawsuits has begun to call into question fossil fuel companies’ role in fueling and spreading misinformation about the climate crisis, the industry has stepped into high gear to fight off litigation. Goldberg is a former lobbyist for the coal company Peabody Energy who was <a href="https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2019/01/23/national-association-of-manufacturers-hires-special-counsel-to-handle-growing-climate-change-lawsuits/?slreturn=20190803192611" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">brought on</a> as special counsel by the National Association of Manufacturers in January as part of its Manufacturers Accountability Project, founded in 2017 to take on “activist litigation” against big oil companies; Exxon Mobil is a NAM member, and the MAP project has been among the most active bodies fighting off climate-related legal action. Both Peabody and NAM have also donated generously to climate denial groups over the years. Both, for instance, were members of the now-defunct <a href="https://climateinvestigations.org/global-climate-coalition-industry-climate-denial/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Global Climate Coalition</a>, which through the 1990s sought to undermine U.N. climate negotiations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Goldberg has also been an <a href="https://www.alec.org/app/uploads/2011/03/InsideALEC_March2011_FINAL.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">adviser</a> for ALEC’s Civil Justice Task Force. In addition to the model legislation on global warming, ALEC has vigorously opposed climate and clean energy legislation around the country. Lewis said that Goldberg works with PPI in a volunteer capacity and is not employed by the Third Way Foundation, despite his lofty title. Evidently, he’s vocally defending fossil fuel companies out of the goodness of his heart....</div></div><div><div>
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</div><div>Washington State Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane) has found

himself back in the spotlight again, this time for messages sent and

received through the Signal app discussing acts of violence against and

surveillance of left-wing activists, as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/20/matt-shea-rightwing-messages-chat-records" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">revealed</a> by The Guardian.

Rep. Shea is the Washington state chair for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and has served on its <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_ALEC_Politicians" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Civil Justice Task Force</a>.

In the private chats with far-right talk show host Jack

Robertson and activist Anthony Bosworth, “The men proposed to confront

leftists — whom they repeatedly refer to as ‘communists’ and ‘Antifa’ —

with a suite of tactics, including violence,” The Guardian reported.[lnx]

The messages were exchanged in the heated lead-up to the

alt-Right’s propaganda about an impending “Antifa revolution” on

November 4, 2017 — something that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/antifa-civil-war-november-4-really-just-few-protests-against-trump-702150" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">in reality</a> amounted to a handful of anti-Trump rallies.

According to the chat history, Robertson suggested extreme

violence against a Spokane resident, one of Shea’s constituents, “Fist

full of hair, and face slam, to a Jersey barrier. Treat em like

communist revolutionaries. Then shave her bald with a K-Bar USMC field

knife.”

Shea did not argue against torturing his constituent and

instead offered to help with the effort by conducting background checks

on Indivisible members and a professor, also constituents: “OK. What BG

checks need to be done. Give me the list. All I have several names that

have come up…Any info out there?”

The men also discussed civil war and “using symbols from

what they understood to be Russian anti-communist groups as a way of

spreading paranoia among their adversaries,” The Guardian found.lnx

The Guardian report comes less than six months following the leak of Shea’s outline for holy war, entitled “<a href="https://www.spokesman.com/documents/2018/oct/25/biblical-basis-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Biblical Basis for War</a>.”

As the Center for Media and Democracy <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/11/05/alec-state-chair-matt-shea-referred-fbi-circulating-holy-war-manual/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>,

Shea’s manifesto advocated for the killing of all males if his radical

agenda could not be achieved peacefully, the terms of which Shea laid

out as a stop to all abortions, an end to same sex marriage, an end to

idolatry, an end to communism, and replacing America’s current justice

system with Biblical law.

Shea lost his position as Chair of the Republican Caucus after the holy war revelations, and many donors, including <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-shea-washington-election-752282/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Avista, BNSF Railroad, and AT&T</a>, cut ties with him.

ALEC, however, ignored calls for it to sever ties with

Shea and, when he won reelection last November, renewed his post as its

Washington state chair.

In addition to <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/BillSponsorship/Member?Chamber=House&ChannelName=shea&Biennium=2019-20" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">introducing bills</a> this year to abolish abortion and deregulate firearms, Shea is sponsoring <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1509&Year=2019" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">legislation</a>

to establish the new state of Liberty, formed by dividing the state of

Washington east of the Cascade mountains. The goal of some white

supremacist groups is to create a <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/01/15/gop-strips-rep-king-posts-alec-keeps-white-supremacist-state-chair/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“white homeland”</a> in the northwest states.

Shea will be the master of ceremonies at a John Birch

Society (JBS) dinner in Idaho on April 26, where right-wing conspiracy

theorist William F. Jasper will deliver an address entitled, “<a href="https://www.jbs.org/store/shopjbs/events-67/jbs-executive-dinner-tickets-wa-april-26-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">No Borders, No Nation</a>.”

JBS — whose cofounders include the Koch Brothers’ father, Fred, and the

founder of the Bradley Foundation — is an extremist group that viewed

the Civil Rights movement and the Equal Rights Amendment as communist

plots.

Washington Lt. Governor Cyrus Habib has <a href="https://twitter.com/cyrushabib/status/1119722366257360896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1119722366257360896&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.krem.com%2Farticle%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fspokane-county%2Flawmakers-respond-to-explosive-shea-allegations%2F293-34ec3bd6-5046-48f8-9655-fa2fa23c4ad3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">asked</a>

Republicans to “do the right thing and eject Matt Shea from their

caucus. Obtaining background checks on people for the purpose of

planning violence against them is a crime, and even offering to do so is

clearly 100% unacceptable in the Legislature.”</div></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2px;" lang="en">The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) has eight <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Task_Forces" title="ALEC Task Forces" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">task forces</a>:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the ALEC Civil Justice Task Force,</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Commerce,Insurance_and_Economic_Development_Task_Force" title="ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force</a>,</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Communications_and_Technology_Task_Force" title="ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force</a>,</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Education_Task_Force" title="ALEC Education Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC Education Task Force</a>,</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a>,</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Health_and_Human_Services_Task_Force" title="ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force</a>,</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_International_Relations_Task_Force" title="ALEC International Relations Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC International Relations Task Force</a>, and</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Tax_and_Fiscal_Policy_Task_Force" title="ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force</a>.</li></ul>(Until it was disbanded in April 2012, ALEC also operated a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Public_Safety_and_Elections_Task_Force" title="ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Public Safety and Elections Task Force</a>, which adopted such "model" bills as the "Stand Your Ground" bill or "Castle Law" doctrine and the voter ID act. Later in 2012, ALEC launched the "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Justice_Performance_Project" title="ALEC Justice Performance Project" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Justice Performance Project</a>" (JPP) in place of the Public Safety and Elections Task Force. The bills associated with the JPP in task force materials obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and posted by ALEC appear to continue ALEC's modus operandi of promoting the financial interests of the corporations and special interest groups that fund it, such as the American Bail Coalition, according to PRWatch.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>)This article is about ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force. Corporations can join this task force for $3,000 a year.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> For model legislation crafted and adopted by the Civil Justice Task Force, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/wiki/Tort_Reform,Corporate_Liability_and_the_Rights_of_Injured_Americans" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">go here</a>. For task force directories and meeting agendas, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8072485" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">go here</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#2013_States_and_Nation_Policy_Summit_Substantive_Agenda" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 2013 States and Nation Policy Summit Substantive Agenda</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#2013_Annual_Meeting_Substantive_Agenda" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 2013 Annual Meeting Substantive Agenda</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#2012_ALEC_Winter_Task_Force_Summit_Substantive_Agenda" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 2012 ALEC Winter Task Force Summit Substantive Agenda</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#2012_ALEC_Spring_Task_Force_Summit_Substantive_Agenda" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 2012 ALEC Spring Task Force Summit Substantive Agenda</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#2011_ALEC_States.26_Nation_Policy_Summit_Substantive_Agenda" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5 2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit Substantive Agenda</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#2011_ALEC_Summer_Task_Force_Summit_Substantive_Agenda" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">6 2011 ALEC Summer Task Force Summit Substantive Agenda</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#2011_ALEC_Annual_Meeting_Substantive_Agenda" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting Substantive Agenda</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Co-Chairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8 Co-Chairs</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Subcommittees" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9 Subcommittees</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Individuals" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10 Individuals</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#.22Private_Sector.22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.1 "Private Sector"</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Corporate.2C_Trade_or_Other_Groups" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.2 Corporate, Trade or Other Groups</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Politicians" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.3 Politicians</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Staff" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">11 Staff</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">12 Articles and resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Related_ALECexposed_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">12.1 Related ALECexposed resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">12.2 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">12.3 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">12.4 References</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">
</h2><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">2013 States and Nation Policy Summit Substantive Agenda</h2>The following "model" legislation was proposed for the Washington, DC conference:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-2013SNPSagenda-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alec.org/docs/CJ_2013_SNPS_35_Day.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Update</a> (PDF, p. 30) to the "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/w/images/5/59/0G3-Noneconomic_Damage_Awards_Act_Exposed.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Non-Economic Damages Act</a>"</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alec.org/docs/CJ_2013_SNPS_35_Day.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">The Citizen Participation Act</a>" (PDF, p. 8)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alec.org/docs/CJ_2013_SNPS_35_Day.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Punitive Damages Standards Act</a>" (PDF, p. 15)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alec.org/docs/CJ_2013_SNPS_35_Day.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Update</a> (PDF, p. 25) to the "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/c/c0/0F1-Private_Enforcement_of_Consumer_Protection_Statutes_Exposed.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Private Enforcement of Consumer Protection Statutes Act</a>"</li></ul>Presentations and panel discussions to be held during the conference included:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-2013SNPSagenda-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Insights and Experiences from the Phantom Damages Elimination Act"</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Reforming Archaic Discovery Rules on the Federal Level"</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Patent Trolling Litigation: What Can the States Do?"</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Reform: Fighting Fraud and Preserving</li></ul>Resources"<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Developing Guidelines for Workers’ Compensation Reform" (Workers' Compensation Subcommittee)</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">2013 Annual Meeting Substantive Agenda</h2>The following "model" legislation was proposed at the Chicago, IL conference:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Updates to Pre-judgment and Post-judgment Interest Act<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-cjann-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></li></ul>Presentations and panel discussions held during the conference included:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">State Legal Reform Activity Update - Matt Fullenbaum, presented by American Tort Reform Association</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lessons learned from Expert Evidence Reform in Florida, presented by William Large, Florida Justice Reform Institute</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Friendship Settlements": Lawsuits that Sidestep the Regulatory Process, presented by William Yeatman, Competitive Enterprise Institute</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Reform: Fighting Fraud and Preserving Resources, presented by Mark Behrens, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLC</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Considering an update to the Punitive Damages Standard Act</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Considering Anti-SLAPP Reform and the Preservation of Free Speech</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Recent Supreme Court desicions that affect Civil Justice Reform</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Class Action Fairness: U.S. Supreme Court to Examine the Role of the Attorney General</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Round-table Discussion: New Issues in Lawsuit Reform around the Country</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Discussion: Developing Guidelines for Workers' Compensation Reform<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-cjann-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">2012 ALEC Winter Task Force Summit Substantive Agenda</h2>The following model bills were proposed at the Washington, DC conference:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Fair Share Act" (Presented by Cary Silverman, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP) (This model "provides that each defendant is liable only for damages in direct proportion to that defendant's responsibility.")</li></ul><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Rational Use of a Product Act" (Presented by Mike Seney, Oklahoma 21st Century and Cary Silverman, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP) (This proposal "clarifies the law as to when a manufacturer or other seller is subject to liability for injuries stemming from misuse of its products: the alleged injury must result from the reasonable, foreseeable misuse of the product.")<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">2012 ALEC Spring Task Force Summit Substantive Agenda</h2>At the May 2012 ALEC Spring Task Force Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Civil Justice Task Force received a "state legislative reform update" from Matt Fullenbaum, director of legislation for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tort_Reform_Association" title="American Tort Reform Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Tort Reform Association</a>. Cary Silverman, counsel of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook_Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook Hardy & Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shook Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP and "advisor" to the task force, presented and led a discussion on "Insights into Loser Pays Reforms: Practical Considerations and Misperceptions." Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Seitz" title="Bill Seitz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bill Seitz</a> (R-OH), task force chair, then moderated a roundtable discussion on "Legislative Ideas and Prospects for 2012." Halley Neboschick, a government relations professional at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GlaxoSmithKline" title="GlaxoSmithKline" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GlaxoSmithKline</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> presented on "Revisiting ALEC Model Legislation:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/w/images/c/c8/0A2-Joint_and_Several_Liability_Act_Exposed.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%;">Joint and Several Liability</a> Reform." Eric Goldberg, mid-Atlantic region vice president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Insurance_Association" title="American Insurance Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Insurance Association</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> and Charles Ross, shareholder attorney at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise,Carter,Child%26_Caraway&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway</a> LLP, led a discussion and vote on the "Resolution in Support of Strengthening the Medicare Secondary Payer System." Jim Copland, the director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute" title="Manhattan Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Manhattan Institute</a>'s Center for Legal Policy, presented on "A Careful Balance of Justice and Fairness: Securities Litigation Considerations for State Legislators." Charles Ross also led a discussion of "The Attorney General Authority Act."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>New model legislation introduced, either for adoption or just for discussion, included:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Resolution in Support of Strengthening the Medicare Secondary Payer System" (presented by Eric Goldberg of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Insurance_Association" title="American Insurance Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Insurance Association</a> and Charles Ross of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise,Carter,Child%26_Caraway&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway</a>, LLP) - introduced for adoption<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> (This introduced resolution is on file with CMD. It "supports efforts to amend the federal Medicare secondary payer law (42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b)) by establishing clear procedures for parties to follow when reimbursing Medicare for payments made on behalf of its beneficiaries.")</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Attorney General Authority Act" (presented by Charles Ross of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise,Carter,Child%26_Caraway&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway</a> LLP) - discussed<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> (This discussed act, drafted by Charles Ross, is on file with CMD. It attempts to limit the authority of state Attorneys General. According to Ross, its purpose is to "ensure Attorneys General are constrained by laws setting forth their authority" so that "specific authority shall govern and be exclusive," such as for example, State Antitrust statutes and Consumer Protection Act statutes; and to "ensure Attorneys General cannot bring court suits on behalf of individuals when the individuals could not bring on their own behalf, without filing first with an administrative agency," such as, for example, with regard to insurance rates and regulated utility rates.)</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit Substantive Agenda</h2>At the December 2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Civil Justice Task Force received a "state legislative reform update" from Matt Fullenbaum, director of legislation for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tort_Reform_Association" title="American Tort Reform Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Tort Reform Association</a>. Walter Olson, Senior Fellow at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cato Institute</a>, presented on his new book, Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, at the 2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz" title="Victor Schwartz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Victor Schwartz</a>, task force co-chair and a partner at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook_Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook Hardy & Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shook Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP as well as general counsel to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tort_Reform_Association" title="American Tort Reform Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Tort Reform Association</a>, presented on "greenhouse gas public nuisance litigation," as ALEC described it, and "whether courts or the legislature should be responsible for greenhouse gas regulation." Dan Greenberg, attorney and senior counsel for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Class_Action_Fairness&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Class Action Fairness (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Class Action Fairness</a>, presented on "the work of the Center for Class Action Fairness to prevent settlement abuse." Antonio Dias, a Partner at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jones_Day" title="Jones Day" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jones Day</a> (a major international law firm and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">tobacco industry</a> agent), spoke on "emerging issues in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAdUlEQVQYV2P4//8/Awxv3LThf0dXKxyD+DA5DEUg+tWrV2AaWTFcIboJyJrhCtGtRMcgebhpL2/4/v//Lvn//x+7IRjIfn8v+P/t055gxZgKPzaC8Y/nMYQVLpnM8f/zo3AqKfzyOOL/h/sh/59c9sBUSIyvAeRdJWjk4E//AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%;">qui tam</a> lawsuits in the education sector." Oriana Senatore, special counsel of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/US_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="US Chamber of Commerce" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">US Chamber of Commerce</a> Institute for Legal Reform, presented on a study commissioned by the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform "measuring the effects of legal reform on economic performance." Eric Goldberg, mid-Atlantic region vice president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Insurance_Association" title="American Insurance Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Insurance Association</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> and Charles Ross, shareholder attorney at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise,Carter,Child%26_Caraway&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway</a> LLP, spoke on "keeping government from preventing reasonable settlements." Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Seitz" title="Bill Seitz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bill Seitz</a> (R-OH), task force co-chair, moderated a discussion on "legislative victories in 2011 and prospects for 2012."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>New model legislation or amendments introduced for adoption included:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/d/d0/0M1-Product_Liability_Act_Exposed.pdf" style="background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); background-position: 100% 50%; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px;">Product Liability Act</a>" amendments (presented by Cary Silverman of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook_Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook Hardy & Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Shook Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP) - unanimously adopted<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">2011 ALEC Summer Task Force Summit Substantive Agenda</h2>The following model bills were proposed at the New Orleans conference:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Phantom Damages Elimination Act" (Presented by Cary Silverman, Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP) (This proposal seeks to "prevent compensatory damage awards for medical expenses from including amounts that the claimant has not and will not pay for such medical care or treatment.")</li></ul><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Promoting Merit in “Merit Selection” Act" (Presented by Page Faulk, US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform) (This proposal seeks to "restore the “merit” in merit selection and promote diversity, transparency and public participation in the judicial nomination and selection process, ensuring an independent, impartial and competent judiciary.")</li></ul><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Employer Good Faith and Safe Harbor Act" (Presented by Rep. Marvin Kleeb of Kansas) (This proposal, "seeks to create business friendly environments in states so business resources can be spent on growth and job creation rather than on litigation, regulations and red tape.")<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">2011 ALEC Annual Meeting Substantive Agenda</h2>From the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting Program: "Focusing on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tort_reform" title="Tort reform" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">tort reform</a> as a means to economic stability, Civil Justice Task Force members will hear about numerous innovative legal reforms. On the agenda are reforms tried in Texas and Florida this year; the Phantom Damages Elimination Act, which seeks to align economic damages in medical cases with prices actually paid as opposed to sticker prices; legislation geared toward promoting best practices in selection of judges for those states with 'merit selection' systems; and legislation creating a legislation safe harbor for employers voluntarily creating and setting employment standards. The Task Force will also hear presentations about recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that may affect state tort systems and about troubling 'lawsuit lending' practices. With the intent to explore the policy arena of workers' compensation, Task Force members will also hear an introductory presentation to spark what we hope will be a constructive conversation.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>New model legislation introduced for adoption included:<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Phantom Damages Elimination Act" (by Cary Silverman of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook_Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook Hardy & Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shook Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Promoting Merit in 'Merit Selection' Act" (by Page Faulk of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/US_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="US Chamber of Commerce" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">US Chamber of Commerce</a>) <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Employer Good Faith and Safe Harbor Act" (by Rep. Marvin Kleeb of Kansas' District 48).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Co-Chairs</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lance_Kinzer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lance Kinzer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lance Kinzer</a> (R-Kansas)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[14]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz" title="Victor Schwartz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Victor Schwartz</a> (Partner, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook,Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook, Hardy & Bacon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shook, Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP), Private Sector Chairman<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[15]</a></li></ul><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook,Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook, Hardy & Bacon" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Shook, Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP is an international law firm with branches in the United States and internationally, with headquarters in Kansas City, MO. Shook, Hardy & Bacon has expertise in corporate litigation related to climate change, nanotechnology and pressures on global water supplies as well as in tort reform. They represent coal and other energy industry companies in efforts to prevent the enacment of legislation to curb carbon pollution.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a> Philip Morris, now <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Altria_Group" title="Altria Group" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Altria Group</a>, is a longtime client;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a> as are pharmaceutical companies Eli Lily and Company, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amgen" title="Amgen" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Amgen</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bristol-Myers_Squibb" title="Bristol-Myers Squibb" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Bristol-Myers Squibb</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GlaxoSmithKline" title="GlaxoSmithKline" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">GlaxoSmithKline</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sanofi-Aventis" title="Sanofi-Aventis" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Sanofi-Aventis</a>, Guidant and Wyeth;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a> Sprint Nextel;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a> and Microsoft.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a> In 2010, Shook, Hardy & Bacon's PAC gave $5,400 to Republicans and $500 to Democrats.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[21]</a> In addition to Victor Schwartz's active participation in ALEC activities, fellow partners <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Behrens" title="Mark Behrens" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Mark Behrens</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Phil_Goldberg" title="Phil Goldberg" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Phil Goldberg</a> have been Advisors to ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Seitz" title="Bill Seitz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Seitz</a> (R-OH), Former Public Sector Chairman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Subcommittees</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Workers' Compensation Subcommittee<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-2013SNPSagenda-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Individuals</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">"Private Sector"</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Christopher E. Appel (Attorney, Public Policy Group, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook,Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook, Hardy & Bacon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shook, Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP), Advisor<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Behrens" title="Mark Behrens" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mark A. Behrens</a> (Partner, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook,Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook, Hardy & Bacon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shook, Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP), Advisor<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[26]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jim Copland (Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute" title="Manhattan Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manhattan Institute</a> Center for Legal Policy) presented on "A Careful Balance of Justice and Fairness: Securities Litigation Considerations for State Legislators" at the 2012 ALEC Spring Task Force Summit Civil Justice Task Force Meeting in Charlotte, NC.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Antonio Dias (Partner, Practice Leader, Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jones_Day" title="Jones Day" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jones Day</a> law firm) spoke on "emerging issues in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAdUlEQVQYV2P4//8/Awxv3LThf0dXKxyD+DA5DEUg+tWrV2AaWTFcIboJyJrhCtGtRMcgebhpL2/4/v//Lvn//x+7IRjIfn8v+P/t055gxZgKPzaC8Y/nMYQVLpnM8f/zo3AqKfzyOOL/h/sh/59c9sBUSIyvAeRdJWjk4E//AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%;">qui tam</a> lawsuits in the education sector" at the 2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit in Scottsdale, AZ.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kirk Dillard (Illinois State Senator and Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP), Chair, 2008 Civil Justice Task Force Spring Summit<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Page Faulk (Vice President, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/US_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="US Chamber of Commerce" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">US Chamber of Commerce</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a>), presented "The Promoting Merit in 'Merit Selection' Act" model legislation at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Matt Fullenbaum (Director of Legislation, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tort_Reform_Association" title="American Tort Reform Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Tort Reform Association</a>), presented Civil Justice State Legislative Reform Update at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trey Gillespie (Senior Workers Compensation Director, Property Casualty Insurers of America<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a>), presented "Exploring Workers' Compensation" at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eric Goldberg (Mid-Atlantic Region Vice President, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Insurance_Association" title="American Insurance Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Insurance Association</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a>) spoke on "keeping government from preventing reasonable settlements" at the 2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit in Scottsdale, AZ.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Phil_Goldberg" title="Phil Goldberg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Phil Goldberg</a> (Partner, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook,Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook, Hardy & Bacon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shook, Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP), Advisor<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dan Greenberg (Attorney and Counsel, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Class_Action_Fairness&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Class Action Fairness (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Center for Class Action Fairness</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a>) presented on "the work of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Class_Action_Fairness&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Class Action Fairness (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Center for Class Action Fairness</a> to prevent settlement abuse" at the 2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit Civil Justice Task Force meeting in Scottsdale, AZ<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">William Large (President, Florida Justice Reform Institute<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a>), presented "Victories and Insights from Florida" at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Halley Neboschick (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GlaxoSmithKline" title="GlaxoSmithKline" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">GlaxoSmithKline</a>) presented on "Revisiting ALEC Model Legislation: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/w/images/c/c8/0A2-Joint_and_Several_Liability_Act_Exposed.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Joint and Several Liability</a> Reform" at the 2012 ALEC Spring Task Force Summit Civil Justice Task Force Meeting in Charlotte, NC.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Walter Olson (Senior Fellow, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Cato Institute</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a>), presented on his new book, Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, at the 2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit Civil Justice Task Force meeting in Scottsdale, AZ<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">G. Edward Pickle (Senior Government Affairs Counsel, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shell_Oil_Company" title="Shell Oil Company" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shell Oil Company</a>), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cary Roberts (Partner, Casteel and Roberts Lobbying Firm), presented "Update and Ideas from the Lone Star State" at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Charles E. Ross (Shareholder Attorney, Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A.), Advisor, former "Public Sector Advisor"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oriana Senatore (Special Counsel, US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a>), presented "Lawsuit Lending Around the Country" at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> and presented on a study commissioned by the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform "measuring the effects of legal reform on economic performance" at the 2011 ALEC States & Nation Summit in Scottsdale, AZ.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cary Silverman (Counsel, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook_Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook Hardy & Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shook Hardy & Bacon</a>, LLP<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a>), presented "The Phantom Damages Elimination Act" model legislation at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> presented amendments to the "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/d/d0/0M1-Product_Liability_Act_Exposed.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Product Liability Act</a>" at the 2011 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit in Scottsdale, AZ;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>and presented and led a discussion on "Insights into Loser Pays Reforms: Practical Considerations and Misperceptions" at the 2012 ALEC Spring Task Force Summit in Charlotte, NC.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Corporate, Trade or Other Groups</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Insurance_Association" title="American Insurance Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Insurance Association</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[10]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[8]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tort_Reform_Association" title="American Tort Reform Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Tort Reform Association</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Casteel and Roberts Lobbying Firm (Austin, Texas)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cato Institute</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Center for America (Formerly the Foundation for Fair and Civil Justice)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Class_Action_Fairness&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Class Action Fairness (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Center for Class Action Fairness</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Florida Justice Reform Institute<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jones_Day" title="Jones Day" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jones Day</a> law firm<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute" title="Manhattan Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manhattan Institute</a> Center for Legal Policy<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_of_Mutual_Insurance_Companies" title="National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies</a> (NAMIC), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Property Casualty Insurers of America<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook_Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook Hardy & Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Shook Hardy & Bacon</a>, LLP<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/US_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="US Chamber of Commerce" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/US_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="US Chamber of Commerce" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">US Chamber of Commerce</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap;">13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise,Carter,Child%26_Caraway&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway</a> LLP<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Politicians</h3><div style="-webkit-column-count: 2;"><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Justin Amash (R-MI), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[41]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Jan Angel (R-WA), Member (2009-2010)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Judge Richard A. Bandstra (Michigan 3rd Court of Appeals through January 2003), Former "Public Sector Chairman" (year unknown) when he was a Michigan state representative from Grand Rapids (1985-1994)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gregory A. Brower (United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, former Nevada State Legislator), Former Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[44]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R-28B), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Adam Driggs (R-AZ), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[45]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Endsley" title="Mike Endsley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mike Endsley</a> (R-26), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Del. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William(Bill)Howell" title="William (Bill) Howell" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William (Bill) Howell</a> (R-VA), Former "Public Sector Chairman" (2010)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[46]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chris_Kapenga" title="Chris Kapenga" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Chris Kapenga</a> (R-33), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rep. Lance Kinzer (R-KS), Civil Justice Task Force Executive Committee member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[47]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marvin Kleeb (R-KS), Member,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[48]</a> presented "The Employer Good Faith and Safe Harbor Act" at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Kuglitsch" title="Mike Kuglitsch" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mike Kuglitsch</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Michael R. O'Neal (R-KS), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[49]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Debra Plowman (R-ME), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[50]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Scott Pruitt (Oklahoma Attorney General, former Republican State Senator of Oklahoma),<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[51]</a> Former "Public Sector Chairman" (2004)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[52]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Dennis D. Pyle (R-KS), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[53]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rich_Zipperer" title="Rich Zipperer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rich Zipperer</a> (R-33), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Carl J. Gatto (AK R-13), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Eddie Farnsworth (AZ R-22), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. David Burnell Smith (AZ R-7), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. J. Ted Vogt (AZ R-30), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Andy Biggs (AZ R-22, Majority Leader), membership exp. 12-31-2010, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Adam Driggs (AZ R-11), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[54]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Don Shooter (AZ R-24), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Ann Clemmer (AR R-29)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-EPA_Letter_for_Senate-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Ann V. Clemmer (AR R-29), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Duncan Baird (AR R-95), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Jon S. Eubanks (AR R-84), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Russell David Carter (AR R-48), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Gilbert R. Baker (AR R-30), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Jeremy Young Hutchinson (AR R-22), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Robert S. Gardner (CO R-21), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Mark Waller (CO R-15), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Cadman" title="Bill Cadman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Cadman</a> (CO R-10), State Chairman<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[56]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Christie Carpino (CN R-32), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. David K. Labriola (CN R-131), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. John T. Shaban (CN R-135), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Doug Collins (GA R-27), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Edward H. Lindsey, Jr. (GA R-54), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Jesse Stone (GA R-23), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. William Hamrick (GA R-30), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Tom Cross (IL R-84), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Chapin Rose (IL R-110), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Kirk W. Dillard (IL R-24), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Brian Bosma (IN R-88)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-HHS_Letter-57" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[57]</a>, ALEC <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a> Member and Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Richard A. Dodge (IN R-51), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. William C. Friend (IN R-23), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Kim Pearson (IA R-42), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. James A. Seymour (IA R-28), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Lance Kinzer (KS R-14)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-LJWorld-58" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[58]</a>, Member and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Relations_Task_Force" title="International Relations Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">International Relations Task Force</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Joe Patton (KS R-54), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Rob Bruchman (KS R-20), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook (KS R-10)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-EPA_Letter_for_Senate-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Ray S. Jones, II (KY D-31), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Robert Stivers (KY R-25), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George%22Greg%22_Cromer" title="George " greg="Greg" cromer="Cromer" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">George "Greg" Cromer</a> (LA R-90), State Chairman<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[59]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Timothy G. Burns (LA R-89), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Fred H. Mills, Jr. (LA R-22), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Jack L. Donahue, Jr. (LA R-11), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Debra Plowman (ME R-33), Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[60]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_Shank" title="Christopher Shank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Christopher Shank</a> (MD R-2), State Chairman<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[61]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former Rep. Richard A. Bandstra (MI R-Grand Rapids, 1985-1994, Michigan 3rd Court of Appeals through January 2003), Former "Public Sector Chairman," Member<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[62]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Eileen Kowall (MI R-44), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tonya_Schuitmaker" title="Tonya Schuitmaker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tonya Schuitmaker</a> (MI R-20), State Chairman<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[63]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Steve Drazkowski (MN R-28B), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Joey E. Fillingane (MS R-41), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. William C. Denny, Jr. (MS R-64), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Elton Gregory Snowden (MS R-83), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Briggs Hopson, III (MS R-23), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Jerry R. Turner (MS R-18), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Stanley Cox (MO R-118)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-EPA_Letter_for_Senate-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Vicki Schneider (MO R-17), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Brian D. Nieves (MO R-98), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Robert Mayer (MO R-25), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. David Howard (MT R-60)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-EPA_Letter_for_Senate-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Ken Peterson (MT R-46)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-EPA_Letter_for_Senate-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Tom McGillvray (MT R-50), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Amy Stasia Perkins (NH R-14), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Lawrence B. Perkins, Jr. (NH R-14), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Sharon M. Carson (NH R-14), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Dennis J. Kintigh (NM R-57), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Rod Adair (NM R-33), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Hugh Allen Blackwell (NC R-86), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Paul B. Stam, Jr. (NC R-37), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Dwight W. Wrangham (ND R-8), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Kim Koppelman (ND R-13), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Randy G. Boehning (ND R-27), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Matt Huffman (OH R-4), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. William P. Coley, II (OH R-55), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. William Seitz (OH R-8), Co-Chair, moderated "Legislative Victories and Prospects for 2012" Roundtable Discussion at Civil Justice Task Force Meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Colby Schwartz (OK R-43), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Gus R. Blackwell (OK R-61), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Lisa Johnson-Billy (OK R-42), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Mark E. McCullough (OK R-30), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Jonathan Nichols (OK R-15), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Jason Conger (OR R-54), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Matthew Wand (OR R-49), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Wally Hicks (OR R-3), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Jimmy C. Bales (SC D-80), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Thad T . Viers (SC R-68), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Brian Gosch (SD R-32), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Jon Hansen (SD R-25), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Roger W. Hunt (SD R-10), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Stacey V. Nelson (SD R-25), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Barrett W. Rich (TN R-94), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Kelly Keisling (TN R-38), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Vance Dennis (TN R-71), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Brian K. Kelsey (TN R-31), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Mark S. Norris (TN R-32), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rep. Todd Smith (TX R-92), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rep. Todd Hunter (TX R-32), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Mike W. Hamilton (TX R-19), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Larry Phillips (TX R-62), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Byron Cook (TX R-8), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Stephen H. Urquhart (UT R-29), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Michael G. Waddoups (UT R-6), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Speaker <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William(Bill)Howell" title="William (Bill) Howell" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">William (Bill) Howell</a> (VA R-28), ALEC Board of Directors<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-Board_of_Directors-64" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[64]</a> and Civil Justice Task Force Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Del. William R. Janis (VA R-56), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Del. Lacey E. Putney (VA I-19), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Matt Shea (WA R-4), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Linda Evans Parlette (WA R-12), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Del. Larry Douglas Kump (WA R-52), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Endsley" title="Mike Endsley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mike Endsley</a> (WI R-26), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chris_Kapenga" title="Chris Kapenga" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Chris Kapenga</a> (WI R-33), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Kuglitsch" title="Mike Kuglitsch" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mike Kuglitsch</a> (WI R-84), Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rich_Zipperer" title="Rich Zipperer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rich Zipperer</a> (WI R-33), Member</li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Staff</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amy_Kjose" title="Amy Kjose" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Amy Kjose</a>, Director<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[65]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brian_Weynand" title="Brian Weynand" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Brian Weynand</a>, Legislative Assistant<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[66]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kristin_Armshaw" title="Kristin Armshaw" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Kristin Armshaw</a>, Former Director (2005)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[67]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mike_Hotra" title="Mike Hotra" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mike Hotra</a> (Senior Vice President, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/APCO_Worldwide" title="APCO Worldwide" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">APCO Worldwide</a>), Former Director (prior to 1998)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[68]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephanie_Linn" title="Stephanie Linn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stephanie Linn</a>, Legislative Assistant (2010)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[69]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Vanderput" title="Andrew Vanderput" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Andrew Vanderput</a>, Legislative Assistant (2009)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[70]</a></li></ul><table style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(201, 215, 240); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(64, 127, 212); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(41, 102, 184);">About ALEC</th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC</a> is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">PRWatch.org site</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Articles and resources</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Related ALECexposed resources</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Center for Media and Democracy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/wiki/Tort_Reform,Corporate_Liability_and_the_Rights_of_Injured_Americans" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALEC on "Tort Reform, Corporate Liability, and the Rights of Injured Americans,"</a> ALECexposed.org, organizational resource website.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Related SourceWatch articles</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz" title="Victor Schwartz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Victor Schwartz</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Seitz" title="Bill Seitz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Seitz</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook_Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook Hardy & Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shook Hardy & Bacon</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tort_Reform_Association" title="American Tort Reform Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Tort Reform Association</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">External resources</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">American Association for Justice, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xbcr/justice/ALEC_Report.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALEC: Ghostwriting the Law for Corporate America</a>, organizational report, May 2010.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">References</h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Nick Surgey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/11/12292/alec-posts-legislative-agendas-while-hiding-its-very-special-interests" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALEC Posts Legislative Agendas while Hiding Its Very Special Interests</a>, PRWatch, November 3, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/ALEC_Corporate_Brochure.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Private Enterprise" Membership</a>, organizational membership brochure, July 2011</li><li id="cite_note-2013SNPSagenda-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-2013SNPSagenda_3-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:3.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-2013SNPSagenda_3-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-2013SNPSagenda_3-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.2</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alec.org/docs/CJ_2013_SNPS_35_Day.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">35 Day Mailing— Agendas and Proposed Model Policies for 2013 States and Nation Policy Summit</a>, organizational document, October 30, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-cjann-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-cjann_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:4.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-cjann_4-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4.1</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, 2013 Conference Task Force Meetings, July 3, 2013 agenda on file with CMD.</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> ALEC,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7Bfb3c17e2-cdd1-4df6-92be-bd4429893665%7D/CJ%20SNPS%202012.PDF" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Civil Justice Task Force Memorandum</a> Organizational Document, October 25, 2012.</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Republican National Lawyers Association, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rnla.org/bio/BioDetail.asp?MemberID=3682" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Member Profile: Miss Halley M. Neboschick</a>, organizational member profile, accessed June 2012</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Workers' Compensation Institute, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wci360.com/news/article/aia-speaks-out-on-marylands-sb-745#.T9Jor-JYuFw" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">AIA Speaks Out on Maryland’s SB 745</a>, organizational website article, April 12, 2012, accessed June 2012</li><li id="cite_note-NCAgenda-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:8.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8.4</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8.5</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8.6</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8.7</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-NCAgenda_8-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">8.8</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, Civil Justice Task Force Meeting, Spring Task Force Summit, The Westin Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, May 11, 2012, organizational meeting agenda, May 11, 2012, on file with CMD</li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Workers' Compensation Institute, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wci360.com/news/article/aia-speaks-out-on-marylands-sb-745#.T9Jor-JYuFw" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">AIA Speaks Out on Maryland’s SB 745</a>, organizational website article, April 12, 2012, accessed June 2012</li><li id="cite_note-AZMinutes-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:10.00</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.01</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.02</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.03</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.04</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.05</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.06</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.07</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.08</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.09</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.10</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.11</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-AZMinutes_10-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10.12</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, Civil Justice Task Force Meeting, ALEC's 2011 States & the Nation Policy Summit, Scottsdale, Arizona, December 1, 2011, Meeting Minutes, organizational document, May 2012, on file with CMD</li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> ALEC,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/1-35-day_mailing_civil-final%20new%20orleans2.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Civil Justice Task Force Memorandum</a> Organizational Document, June 30, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011 Conference Task Force Meetings, conference brochure on file with CMD, August 11, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-MeetingAgenda-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:13.00</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.01</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.02</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.03</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.04</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.05</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.06</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.07</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.08</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.09</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.10</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.11</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.12</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.13</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.14</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.15</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.16</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.17</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-MeetingAgenda_13-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">13.18</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, Civil Justice Task Force Meeting Agenda, August 5, 2011, on file with CMD</li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; 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O'Neal</a>, online profile, Accessed June 11, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-50" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-50" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Maine State GOP <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maine.gov/legis/senate_gop/senators/senator.php?senator=plowman&story_title=Maine%20Senate%20GOP:%20Meet%20Sen.%20Debra%20Plowman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Meet Sen. 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Pyle (KS)</a>, Project Vote Smart website, Accessed June 11, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-54" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-54" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Adam Driggs <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adamdriggs.com/experience.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Adam Driggs Arizona Senate</a>, online profile, accessed June 11, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-EPA_Letter_for_Senate-55" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-EPA_Letter_for_Senate_55-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:55.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-EPA_Letter_for_Senate_55-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">55.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-EPA_Letter_for_Senate_55-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">55.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-EPA_Letter_for_Senate_55-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">55.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-EPA_Letter_for_Senate_55-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">55.4</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/AM/PDF/NRTF/EPALetterforSenate.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid</a>, RE: the EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, March 10, 2010</li><li id="cite_note-56" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-56" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/about-alec/state-chairmen/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALEC State Chairmen</a>, organization website, accessed April 18th, 2012</li><li id="cite_note-HHS_Letter-57" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-HHS_Letter_57-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ALECInitiatives/HealthCareReform/HHSLetterSignatories/default.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Letter to Robert C. Byrd and Nancy Pelosi</a> RE: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/51653529/Alec-Attacks-Hcr" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Federal health reform efforts</a>, June 24, 2009</li><li id="cite_note-LJWorld-58" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-LJWorld_58-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Scott Rothschild, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/jul/24/corporate-funded-alec-has-strong-ties-kansas-legis/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Corporate-funded ALEC has strong ties to Kansas Legislature</a>, Lawrence Journal World, July 24, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-59" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-59" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/about-alec/state-chairmen/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALEC State Chairmen</a>, organization website, accessed April 18th, 2012</li><li id="cite_note-60" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_Justice_Task_Force#cite_ref-60" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Maine State GOP <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maine.gov/legis/senate_gop/senators/senator.php?senator=plowman&story_title=Maine%20Senate%20GOP:%20Meet%20Sen.%20Debra%20Plowman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Meet Sen. 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