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Critics of trial lawyers say Scruggs and a cabal of his colleagues are using litigation to hijack hot-button social issues that should be resolved in Congress and the state legislatures. "Trial lawyers are an unelected fourth branch of government," fumes Walter Olson, an author and trial-lawyer foe. Corporate executives complain that the cost of fighting lawsuits, let alone losing them, drives up prices of products ranging from ladders to automobiles and holds down wages and job creation and profits. Adding to the outrage: many plaintiffs' lawyers are getting very rich. The tobacco-settlement legal fees--to be shared...
...threat last week from the House Foreign Aid Committee to deduct the value of the sale from Israel's aid package suggests the White House may face growing domestic pressure to lean on the Barak and his government - not least because China itself lurks as a perennial hot-button domestic issue at election time. Israel can count on strong support in both parties on Capitol Hill when it comes to the peace process, and Republicans were even happy to underwrite former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's constant efforts to sabotage it, but kissing up to China might offend some traditionally...
...Gonzalez and his backers in the Cuban exile community may be gambling on more desperate measures to stop the U.S. government from implementing its decision to return the boy to his father. The segment broadcast Monday shows Elian recounting the trauma of his mother's death, but skirts the hot-button issue of where he'd like to live...
...They said they hope this list will allow each organization to publicize events, announcements and hot-button issues...
Once and future hospital patients everywhere cringed in December when the National Academy of Sciences released a hot-button study suggesting that roughly 90,000 patients die each year as a result of preventable medical mistakes. Tuesday, President Clinton announced a proposal to make public the errors committed by hospitals. This plan, according to TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, has teeth. "These changes could become part of a patients' bill of rights," says Thompson. Since the NAS report was released, he adds, Clinton vowed repeatedly to adopt the measures suggested by the academy; almost every NAS recommendation has made...