Secure Arkansas Tort Reform Is Contrary To Conservative Values And Principles. Educational Video

For decades, front groups for corporate America have been trying to sell us the idea that we need tort reform. It’s a catchy phrase, but what it really means is that corporations want to take away the right of American citizens to take a company to court when they make a product that maims, kills, or disfigures consumers. THAT is what tort reform really means

Tort Reform Is Contrary

To Conservative Values 
and Principles

  Conservatives believe in less government. But, tort reform contains arbitrary, government-mandated limits on individual rights and limits on the efficacy of our judicial system.  How is that consistent with conservative values and principles?

Conservatives believe in local control. Yet, tort reform takes power and control away from local citizens.  There is no smaller, more committed, or more effective form of government than a jury of 12 unbiased citizens, listening to the specific facts of a case and working to do what’s right.  Politicians mandating limits on what our local jurors can do is “big government”  at its worst. Conservative? Not. 

Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, holding accountable those who do wrong. Yet, tort reform puts arbitrary limits on how much a wrongdoer can be held personally accountable.  How does that promote personal responsibility? 

Conservatives believe people should solve their own problems rather than have “big government” get involved to “bail out” one side or the other. Our justice system allows people to resolve their disputes fairly and evenhandedly.  Undermining that court system through so-called tort reform will cause the public  to  demand greater governmental regulation of our conduct. What is conservative about that? 

Conservatives believe that those who are responsible for something should pay for it. We teach our children, ”If you break it, you fix it.” But, tort reform tells wrongdoers you are only going to have to fix part of the harm you caused, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab for the rest of the harm.  Can we as a State afford that?

Conservatives believe in the Rule of Law. Yet, tort reform’s limit on the amount of damages a jury can award violates the Constitutional Right to Trial by Jury found in the 7th Amendment to the US Constitution and in the Arkansas Constitution. 

TRUE CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE 
TORT REFORM BECAUSE IT IS 
NOT CONSERVATIVE 

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Joey McCutchen, a Conservative trial lawyer from Fort Smith, has been traveling around the state educating Conservative citizens on the subject of “How Tort Reform is Contrary to Conservative Values and Principles.” McCutchen challenges true conservatives to oppose tort reform because it is not conservative and violates the Constitutional Right to Trial by Jury found in the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution and also in the Arkansas Constitution.