Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases
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    7/28/2008
    James R. Carroll, Jr., Esquire
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    Equal justice under law must be campaign issue

    Letter to the editor by Mike Foley who is the new President of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.

    The next president will have the opportunity to inalterably shape the appellate courts for decades to come. Will he choose judges who respect the importance of an open civil justice system or will he choose justices and judges who will continue the eight-year trend of minimizing the right to a jury trial?

    Thus, as we consider the two candidates for president, what are some of the questions we must ask of them?

    First, will he support the trend of federal courts to snub their noses at the constitutional powers of the Congress, state governments and courts to share a role in protecting consumers, or say that the federal executive branch’s power is supreme?

    Will he support legislation to make mandatory clauses for one-sided arbitration in contracts illegal? These clauses are included in everything from a cell phone to a nursing home and now found more and more in health care.

    Finally, will his health care reform bill make patient safety a major component to reduce the incidents of negligence and preventable infections?

    “Equal Justice Under Law” are the words carved on the fa?ade of the Supreme Court Building. But, by and large, the “equal” part is not being respected.

    To see the entire editorial from the TimesTribune.com...go here.

     


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