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Talk:American Tort Reform Association

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One of the recent modifications (01:49, 22 September 2005) contained material entirely lifted from atra.org's own web site (specifically, http://www.atra.org/about/ ). It's rather bad form for an interest group with an admitted "agenda" to write its own Wikipedia entry.

I've removed two of the items from the ATRA's list of changes in its "aggressive civil justice reform agenda":

• Appeal bond changes.
• Class action changes.

I'm sure such changes are proposed are noteworthy, but the term "changes" is so vague as to make these items almost meaningless. And again, as a term chosen by the ATRA, there seems to be a certain amount of inherent "innocuousness" POV. Ex0pos 05:03, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused by what is added by the accusation "right wing corporate front group," which appears ad hominem.

1. The only evidence that ATRA is "right wing" is that they support tort reform, which is perceived as right wing (though the issue doesn't cleave that cleanly) -- but we already know that ATRA supports tort reform. It seems circular and irrelevant.
2. I recognize that tort reform opponents have made the accusation, but I don't see how ATRA is a "corporate front group". The phrasing seems unduly pejorative; a front group hides its supporters, while ATRA acknowledges that it consists of corporate members who support tort reform. -- FRCP11 23:31, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to agree that the part about the right-wing corporate front group is not helpful, and is thinly-veiled POV.

I've taken the liberty of removing it (I think this is fair for me to do this, as I happen to believe that the ATRA *IS* a corporate front group (but a bipartisan one) :D -- but that the statement is misplaced in the article).

Still, some kind of conclusory paragraph, which I'm too lazy to compose at the moment, seems in order. I'll leave that to someone else. Ex0pos 05:03, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Civil Justice Achievement Award is a very short stub, and the award is not very notable. It seems best to merge the couple of sentences here. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 22:55, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While I don't accuse these people of being a "[Right-wing] front group", I do think that the articel portrays them in a too-uncritical light, especially since it appears to be a summarization of information that could be found on their website. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 19:11, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence seems very stuffy and non-specific:

The ATRA supports an agenda to increase public awareness of, and suggest changes in, the manner in which tort litigation is conducted in the United States.

I'm not sure how to change it. I'll examine the organization's website to get a better idea of what they are about. --Swunalightyear (talk) 21:47, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article makes no mention of this group's funding by major corporate donors such as the Koch brothers. This ought to be included in the article. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 11:50, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]