"Tort reform" = attack on the jury system

Face the State (another Colorado website that everyone should read) has an article covering a recent meeting held by the Colorado Civil Justice League. The CCJL wants to "reform" tort laws.

The essence of "tort reform" is to limit the authority of juries to decide damages. It is a direct attack on the jury system.

And "tort reformers" generally do not deny it. According to the "reformers," juries are too stupid to understand difficult matters and too subject to emotional pleas to make rational decisions.

Therefore, the logic goes, the legislature is better suited to determine damage awards than juries.

Since the government knows better than you, the government will take that power away from juries and take it for themselves.

This is generally referred to as "statism."

BlueCarp hates statism.