Part 4: Trial and Reflection

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Activity 4E: Viewpoints on Tort Reform

Video Clip of Crystal Chodes

Interview with Crystal Chodes, former marketing director of Basketball Town,
provided by the Institute for Legal Reform, U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
www.instituteforlegalreform.com

http://lawandjustice.edc.org/sites/lawandjustice.edc.org/files/CrystalChodes

Chodes Video ClipText

This site contains a narrative that accompanies the video clip of Crystal Chodes, former marketing director for Basketball Town.

www.facesoflawsuitabuse.org/2007/12/lawsuit-forces-communitybasketball-facility-to-close/

Online Political Cartoons

Two recommended cartoons are available here.

“Conventional medicine says take aspirin. In the absence of tort reform,
defensive medicine says . . .“  http://lawandjustice.edc.org/sites/lawandjustice.edc.org/files/FL4Cartoon1-TortReform.pdf

“TRIAL LAWYER!”  http://lawandjustice.edc.org/sites/lawandjustice.edc.org/files/FL4Cartoon1-TrialLawyer.pdf

These sites contain many political cartoons on tort reform. Look for cartoons
representing a variety of perspectives.

Cartoons for the Classroom. Presented in cooperation with the Association of
American Editorial Cartoonists. Available through the Newspaper in Education
(NIE) program. Copyright Online Publications Inc. and NIEOnline.com.

www.nieonline.com/cftc/pdfs/tortreform.pdf

Todays [sic] Cartoon - Tort Reform. (September 12, 2009). Posted by SBVOR
(anonymous blogger in Steamboat Springs, Colorado).

http://sbvor.blogspot.com/2009/09/todays-cartoon-tort-reform.html

Tort Reform Cartoons and Comics

www.cartoonstock.com/directory/t/tort_reform.asp