Read more: GOP clashes over medical malpractice [Julian Pecquet at The Hill]
At a Judiciary Committee markup, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) accused Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) of proposing legislation that would violate the constitution.
Rep. Poe warned that the tort reform proposal violated states’ rights under the 10th Amendment.
Curiously absent in the debate (at least as reported in The Hill), was any discussion of the 7th Amendment.
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Brett Emison is currently a partner at Langdon & Emison, a firm dedicated to helping injured victims across the country from their primary office near Kansas City. Mainly focusing on catastrophic injury and death cases as well as complex mass tort and dangerous drug cases, Mr. Emison often deals with automotive defects, automobile crashes, railroad crossing accidents (train accidents), trucking accidents, dangerous and defective drugs, defective medical devices.
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