Last week, Newsweek magazine came out with a poll showing 91% of Americans believe in God. Newsweek surveys this question every year secretly hoping, I think, that the percentage of faith-based Americans will decline-but it doesn't.
The United States Senate voted to confirm Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., 55, as the 110th justice of the United States Supreme Court today with a partisan vote of 58-42.
Chief Justice John Roberts The United States Senate voted 78-22 to confirm Judge John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court making him the youngest Chief Justice in 200 years.
On the hunt for the campaign cash that thrust him into office, Governor Rod Blagojevich promised Illinois’ deep-pocketed plaintiff’s bar he was no friend of tort reform.
In their public statements, officials within the FDA and CDC, are always claiming that researchers and scientists who conduct studies, not funded by drug companies or the government, are making unfounded
The U.S. House of Representatives approved the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 in a 279-149 vote today. The bill, which will be signed into law by President Bush at the White House on Friday, mainly shifts most class action lawsuits from state to federal courts.
U.S. President George W. Bush addresses an Illinois State Medical Society gathering June 11, 2003, in Chicago. (Photo by Shawn J. O�Malley) A rare presidential visit to southern Illinois will take place in the epicenter of the nation's tort reform debate Jan. 5, when U.S. President George W. Bush is scheduled to appear at Gateway Convention Center in Collinsville to discuss medical liability reform.
Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli Not only did the subject of tort reform play a substantive role in a two-day economic conference held at the White House Wednesday and Thursday (Dec. 15-16), Madison County, Ill. also achieved recognition as a "speed trap" for American civil litigation.