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