Welcome to Wisconsin!
Maureen Martin writes that if you are an ambulance chasing trial lawyer and you want to get rich, Wisconsin is now the place to be, thanks to your local Democrats.
Three key legal issues are at stake in this election as a result of the governor's vetoes. The first relates to the admissibility of expert testimony in court. Under Wisconsin law, such testimony is admissible even when the judge believes it is unreliable. Juries determine on their own whether to consider such testimony. In other words, junk science is fully admissible in Wisconsin. That policy--created by the courts, corrected by a bill, but retained by Gov. Doyle's veto--enables a researcher in an obesity case against a fast-food restaurant to say that, based on a single study of rat behavior, cheeseburgers are as addictive as heroin to humans.
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