8-21 IAT EAJA

 Judges Shouldn’t Manage Federal Lands. Congressman Mike Simpson sent out a statement saying...”Many of us lament the ridiculous jury awards we hear about on television or read about in the newspaper.  We shake our heads at the actions of judges, juries, and lawyers who defy commonsense and seek or award judgments that are excessive by any measure.  We know that everything from the price of electric razors to the explosion of health care costs is driven upward in some measure by a broken legal system that seems out-of-touch with the real concerns of daily life.” 

I, David,  have been ranting for years about the Equal Access to Justice Act or EAJA, as it relates to the nuts up in Sun Valley who coordinate lawsuits against our beef producers. Lawyers getting paid $600-$800/hour to sue the government in the name of ecology.

Here’s Congressman Simpson spokesperson, Nikki Watts: ““Regrettably, extremist organizations and unscrupulous lawyers have been successful over the past few decades in making untrained federal judges, rather than trained federal land managers, the real decision-makers on federal land management actions.  Even more regrettably, this transfer of authority from federal agencies to judges has been funded to a large degree by you, the taxpayer, through a broken law known as the Equal Access to Justice Act.”