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Attributions It's been said. . . It makes all the difference. I've run in two elections, one with campaign finance reform, one without. I'll take with' any day, anytime, anywhere. North Carolina Appeals Court Judge Wanda Bryant discussing public financing of judicial elections in that state, a system that is similar to a bill proposed in the Illinois legislature We have seen clear improvements in Madison County by some of the trial judges and we commend that. (In the Vioxx case) there was a fair trial in an area where a few years ago one could not get a fair trial. Victor Schwartz, lawyer for the American Tort Reform Association, on a jury verdict favoring Vioxx maker Merck & Co. and against the claim of a widower whose 52-year-old wife died while taking the drug I certainly understand that things have occurred in Madison County that have brought these people down on us. (But) to me, a judicial hellhole is a place where no one could get justice; that's not the case. Madison County judge Daniel Stack, who presided over the jury trial involving Vioxx, rejecting the label "hellhole" as a "childish and unfair creation by a group with a political agenda" |