Monday, 29th August 2005

Fringe Tactics: Special Interest Groups Target Judicial Races

Campaign Finance--Judiciary
Source: The Institute on Money in State Politics
Fringe Tactics: Special Interest Groups Target Judicial Races (PDF; 160 KB)
"Despite the variation in the types of groups making independent expenditures, the Institute’s analysis revealed that the driving interest of many of the players was to enact changes to lawsuit liability laws. Organizations on either side of this controversial issue spent large sums of money to influence the outcome of the 2004 judicial elections in the six study states. In all, the 17 groups raised $19.3 million, with nearly all of the money coming from five economic sectors. Four of the top five sectors — health, insurance, lawyers and lobbyists, and general business — are primary actors in the lawsuit liability debate. Some, such as the medical and business communities, seek to change tort laws to reduce large settlements that can increase their insurance costs or affect business opportunities. Others, such as plaintiff lawyers, hope to maintain a system that returns large awards and allows easy access to courts."

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