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Bill: Let the Courts Decide
Details
Submitted by[?]: Green Worker's Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2428
Description[?]:
| Change in policy to allow the courts to decide what is appropriate compensation on a case by case basis |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tort reform on non-civil lawsuits.
Old value:: There is a cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Current: There is a cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Proposed: There is no cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:45:28, July 12, 2007 CET | From | Fronte Libertarian Individual dela Perez | To | Debating the Let the Courts Decide |
| Message | No, there has to be a cap on damages awarded in lawsuits. A no cap system is nothing short of a legal-version of winning the lottery. One person gets lucky and gets all the money, everyone else has to pay for it. This has got to be stopped. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 258 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 159 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 8 |
| Random fact: "Kubrk" is a Jelbic word that has the colloquial meaning "old man" or "geezer". |
| Random quote: "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." - Charles de Gaulle |