I really can't understand how there can be Senators who are actually using this judge as the judge to bring down the house. This woman is UNBELIEVABLE!!
This is from the Center for American Progress-
FORD:A more tragic case is the case of Willie Searcy. A defective seat belt left the teenaged Searcy paralyzed and in need of constant medical care after a car slammed into his Ford pickup. A jury awarded his family, which did not have the financial resources to pay for Searcy's care, millions of dollars in damages. Ford appealed, taking the case to the Texas Supreme Court. Owen took the case and allowed it to languish for years. When she did get around to writing the opinion, she took issue with a point of law that had not even been raised in the appeal, wrote long, complicated clarifications of a law that was no longer even on the books, "left the family with nothing and ordered a new trial." Searcy died while awaiting the Owen-ordered new trial. While Willie Searcy's case moved through the system, Owen accepted over $20,000 from Baker Botts, the law firm which was part of Ford's defense team.
HALLIBURTON: The Alliance for Justice reports that in the case of Sanchez v. Halliburton, a Halliburton field worker named Carlos Sanchez "won a $2.6 million verdict after the jury found that a company supervisor had framed him to test positive for cocaine." An appeals court overturned the verdict; Sanchez tried to bring the case to the Texas Supreme Court. In the months during which the case was before the Court, Halliburton made its only campaign donations to the Texas Supreme Court that year, and gave thousands of dollars to three justices: Priscilla Owen, Nathan Hecht, and Alberto Gonzales. Result: the court declined to hear the case and the ruling overturning Sanchez's case stood.
Are the Republicans really trying to say that
this woman is the right choice? Isn't there another judge that doesn't hate people?
Here is a little more background-
BUSINESS BY THE NUMBERS: According to an old saying, the customer is always right. For Owen, the opposite is true. The consumer is always wrong and the big corporations are always right. According to Texas Watch, since her election to Texas's top court in 1994, Owen has sided with business interests over the victims in every single one of 175 cases in which the court decided against consumers. In the 68 cases in which the court ruled in favor of the consumers, Owen dissented 22 times.