Courts, not politicians, should decide jury awards

That Republicans/Big Trucking pushed a law that gives “immunity from lawsuits over a certain amount,” when big rig drivers cause crashes when going too fast in fog or on ice, is unconstitutional! It needs some safety or legal places with enough gumption to challenge it. Republicans have given such immunities, privileges, and “favored status” in the laws to police, hunters, and owners/operators of big animal confinement facilities because these are where their votes and where election funding comes from. None come from the victims that get run over by 80,000 pound big rigs, or from nondangerous, non-attacking citizens shot in the back, or from the animals that are exploited treated cruelly, wounded or chased by motor vehicles.

Jurors should decide how much money should be given for pain, suffering, and permanent injury or death. Their legislation takes jurors’ rights away.

The trucking lobby has clever arguments as to “why we must get this legislation through to stop those nuclear lawsuits.“ When a semi truck crashes into other vehicles it’s a ”nuclear“ crash!

Herman Lenz

Sumner