Tort reform really is important to business interests. Read this response to Oklahoma’s Attorney General lawsuit against the biggest chicken producers in the area.

“We don’t want this to be a replay of the Tulsa suit where most of the money went to the law firm,” said Jim Gipson, public relations consultant for the poultry companies.

The City of Tulsa sued those poultry companies for polluting the city’s water supply, which comes from the Eucha-Spavinaw watershed. A settlement was reached without the lawsuit going to trial.

Janet Wilkerson, a spokeswoman for the poultry companies, said they are willing to come to an agreement to remove excess litter from the Oklahoma Scenic River watershed, but “we want our money to go to solutions, not toward trial lawyers.”

Why does the poultry industry need to “come to an agreement to remove excess litter”? Why don’t they just do it on their own?

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