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		<title>ATRA Ally Calls out Louisiana Attorney General for Pay-to-Play &#8216;Buddy Sytem&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/21/atra-louisiana-ally-call-out-ag-caldwell-for-pay-to-play-contracts-with-top-campaign-donors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judicial Hellholes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddy Caldwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa landry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWL-TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An investigative report by a New Orleans television station has turned up the heat on Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell and his so-called "Buddy System," wherein his big campaign contributors not so coincidentally get the lion's share of no-bid contracts for litigation work on behalf of the state <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/21/atra-louisiana-ally-call-out-ag-caldwell-for-pay-to-play-contracts-with-top-campaign-donors/">ATRA Ally Calls out Louisiana Attorney General for Pay-to-Play &#8216;Buddy Sytem&#8217;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama Passes Important Transparency Bill, Limits State&#8217;s Hiring of Outside Counsel</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/21/alabama-passes-important-transparency-bill-limits-states-hiring-of-outside-counsel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/21/alabama-passes-important-transparency-bill-limits-states-hiring-of-outside-counsel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Points of Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attorney General Luther Strange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contingency fee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outside counsel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Paul DeMarco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Cam Ward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Speaker Pro Tem Del Marsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speaker Mike Hubbard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TiPAC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The American Tort Reform Association applauds Alabama lawmakers for final passage of legislation that will bring “good-government transparency to the state’s hiring of private sector attorneys on a contingency fee basis” <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/21/alabama-passes-important-transparency-bill-limits-states-hiring-of-outside-counsel/">Alabama Passes Important Transparency Bill, Limits State&#8217;s Hiring of Outside Counsel</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts High Court Promotes Practically Boundless &#8216;Consumer Protection&#8217; Law</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/20/a-consumer-protection-law-without-bounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/20/a-consumer-protection-law-without-bounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judicial Hellholes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent decision by Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court shows how disturbingly far consumer protection laws have been stretched and contorted beyond their intended purpose by plaintiffs' lawyers and some courts <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/20/a-consumer-protection-law-without-bounds/">Massachusetts High Court Promotes Practically Boundless &#8216;Consumer Protection&#8217; Law</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>#1 Hellhole Ranks as &#8216;Worst State for Business&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/14/1-judicial-hellhole-ranks-as-worst-state-for-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/14/1-judicial-hellhole-ranks-as-worst-state-for-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judicial Hellholes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2013 BesT and Worst States for Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annual CEO Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Executive Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A newly released annual survey of the nation's CEOs confirms that California, currently ranked as the #1 Judicial Hellhole, not coincidentally ranks as the worst state in which to do business, as well <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/14/1-judicial-hellhole-ranks-as-worst-state-for-business/">#1 Hellhole Ranks as &#8216;Worst State for Business&#8217;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Video Speaks to Character of Wisconsin&#8217;s &#8216;Lemon Law King&#8217; Now Fighting Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/13/wisconsins-lemon-law-king-vows-to-fight-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/13/wisconsins-lemon-law-king-vows-to-fight-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judicial Hellholes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Points of Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assembly Bill 200]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lemon Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vince Megna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As reform legislation offered today in Wisconsin's Assembly promises to close loopholes in the state's outlier "lemon law" -- loopholes that have been infamously exploited by unscrupulous lawyers there -- a new video speaks to the character of one of those lawyers <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/05/13/wisconsins-lemon-law-king-vows-to-fight-reform/">Video Speaks to Character of Wisconsin&#8217;s &#8216;Lemon Law King&#8217; Now Fighting Reform</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>NJ High Court Raises Bar for &#8216;Expert&#8217; Testimony</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/26/nj-high-court-raises-bar-for-expert-testimony/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/26/nj-high-court-raises-bar-for-expert-testimony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Points of Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expert witnesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Liability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas v. Mynster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a decision that should reduce the number of meritless medical liability lawsuits filed in the Garden State, a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court yesterday ruled that doctors called as expert witnesses on plaintiffs' behalf must hold the same credentials as defendant physicians <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/26/nj-high-court-raises-bar-for-expert-testimony/">NJ High Court Raises Bar for &#8216;Expert&#8217; Testimony</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho Justices Ban &#8216;Vexatious Litigant&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/24/idaho-justices-ban-vexatious-litigant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/24/idaho-justices-ban-vexatious-litigant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Points of Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holli Lundahl Telford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vexatious litigant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Idaho Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld a lower court's decison to declare Holli Lundahl Telford a "vexatious litigant" under a new law aimed at neutralizing those who repeatedly file frivolous lawsuits <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/24/idaho-justices-ban-vexatious-litigant/">Idaho Justices Ban &#8216;Vexatious Litigant&#8217;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Forum Shopping in the Other &#8216;Las Vegas&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/24/forum-shopping-in-the-other-las-vegas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/24/forum-shopping-in-the-other-las-vegas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judicial Hellholes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forum shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Miguel County]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently tired of living in the shadow of Las Vegas, Nevada, jackpot justice capital of the Mountain West, little Las Vegas, New Mexico, in rural San Miguel County, has now become notorious for forum shopping as it vies for Judicial Hellholes status in its own right <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/24/forum-shopping-in-the-other-las-vegas/">Forum Shopping in the Other &#8216;Las Vegas&#8217;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Trial Lawyer Lobbying Group Sharing D.C. Office Space with Bus-Advertising Slip-and-Fall Specialists?</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/18/trial-lawyer-lobbying-group-apparently-shares-d-c-office-space-with-bus-advertising-slip-and-fall-specialists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/18/trial-lawyer-lobbying-group-apparently-shares-d-c-office-space-with-bus-advertising-slip-and-fall-specialists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Association for Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Tort Reform Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darren McKinney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Mike Slocumb Law Firm]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association today pointed out the fact that the national trial lawyers association and a personal-injury law firm known for aggressive advertising are both listing the same Washington, D.C., office address as theirs <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/18/trial-lawyer-lobbying-group-apparently-shares-d-c-office-space-with-bus-advertising-slip-and-fall-specialists/">Is Trial Lawyer Lobbying Group Sharing D.C. Office Space with Bus-Advertising Slip-and-Fall Specialists?</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas Editorial Condemns Clark County&#8217;s &#8216;Lawsuit Lottery&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/17/las-vegas-editorial-condemns-clark-countys-lawsuit-lottery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/17/las-vegas-editorial-condemns-clark-countys-lawsuit-lottery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judicial Hellholes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clark County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hepatitis C]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Timothy C. Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las vegas Review-Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nevada's leading newspaper has condemned the latest absurd verdict and half-billion dollar award for punitive damages in a string of deep pocket-targeting cases that has helped make Clark County courts look more and more like Las Vegas casinos <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/17/las-vegas-editorial-condemns-clark-countys-lawsuit-lottery/">Las Vegas Editorial Condemns Clark County&#8217;s &#8216;Lawsuit Lottery&#8217;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>ATRA Backs &#8216;Transparency&#8217; Policies of WV&#8217;s New AG</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/11/atra-backs-transparency-policies-of-wvs-new-ag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/11/atra-backs-transparency-policies-of-wvs-new-ag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judicial Hellholes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ATRA president Tiger Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darrell McGraw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outside counsel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Morrisey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pay-to-Play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an op-ed published today by the State Journal in West Virginia, ATRA president Tiger Joyce offered support for the state's new attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, and his proposed transparency policies aimed at providing the public with more information about the hiring of outside counsel  <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/11/atra-backs-transparency-policies-of-wvs-new-ag/">ATRA Backs &#8216;Transparency&#8217; Policies of WV&#8217;s New AG</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ Spotlights Asbestos Shenanigans in Judicial Hellhole</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/11/wsj-spotlights-asbestos-shenanigans-in-judicial-hellhole/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/11/wsj-spotlights-asbestos-shenanigans-in-judicial-hellhole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judicial Hellholes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asbestos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge John M. Glynn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Angelos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Picking up where the latest Judicial Hellholes report left off, the Wall Street Journal this week editorialized about the consolidation game that asbestos kingpin Peter Angelos is trying to play in Baltimore <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/11/wsj-spotlights-asbestos-shenanigans-in-judicial-hellhole/">WSJ Spotlights Asbestos Shenanigans in Judicial Hellhole</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Punishing Lawyers, Plaintiffs and Witnesses Who Conspire and Lie to Defraud Our Courts</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/02/punishing-lawyers-plaintiffs-and-witnesses-who-conspire-lie-to-defraud-our-courts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/02/punishing-lawyers-plaintiffs-and-witnesses-who-conspire-lie-to-defraud-our-courts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Points of Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Claims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class-action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSX Transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyrus Vance Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elephant poop shoveler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's long overdue, but a nascent movement to hold accountable and punish those who pursue fraudulent lawsuits at the expense of taxpayers, consumers and jobseekers may finally be materializing <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/02/punishing-lawyers-plaintiffs-and-witnesses-who-conspire-lie-to-defraud-our-courts/">Punishing Lawyers, Plaintiffs and Witnesses Who Conspire and Lie to Defraud Our Courts</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>ATRA Mixes It up with Plaintiffs&#8217; Lawyers Over &#8216;Constitutionality&#8217; of Statutory Liability Limits</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/02/atra-spokesman-mixes-it-up-with-plaintiffs-lawyers-over-constitutionality-of-statutory-liability-limits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/02/atra-spokesman-mixes-it-up-with-plaintiffs-lawyers-over-constitutionality-of-statutory-liability-limits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ABA Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Bar Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darren McKinney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Vail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Ledbetter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ATRA considers a recent ABA Journal story about constitutional challenges to statutory liability limits to be "largely fair," but believes "it's slightly weighted toward the view of plaintiffs' lawyers and could lead a general reader to incorrect assumptions <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/02/atra-spokesman-mixes-it-up-with-plaintiffs-lawyers-over-constitutionality-of-statutory-liability-limits/">ATRA Mixes It up with Plaintiffs&#8217; Lawyers Over &#8216;Constitutionality&#8217; of Statutory Liability Limits</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri Coalition Backs Bill, Amendment To Undo Bad High Court Decision</title>
		<link>http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/02/missouri-coalition-backs-bill-amendment-to-undo-bad-high-court-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>atra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Points of Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missouri State Medical Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missouri Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missouri Tort Reform Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noneconomic damages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Show-Me Tort Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Missouri State Medical Association has launched a new website to boost the efforts of the Missouri Tort Reform Coalition, an alliance of medical groups and tort reform advocates supporting both legislation and a proposed state constitutional amendment to reverse a 2012 Missouri Supreme Court decision that struck down a reasonable statutory limit on awards for noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.judicialhellholes.org/2013/04/02/missouri-coalition-backs-bill-amendment-to-undo-bad-high-court-decision/">Missouri Coalition Backs Bill, Amendment To Undo Bad High Court Decision</a></span>]]></description>
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