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Effort to Repeal Tort Reform Dangerous - An Op-Ed by James Harris, Executive Director of Better Courts for Missouri
Springfield News-Leader
Editorial
1/1/2010
Show Me Tort Reform: The Missouri Experience, by John C. Hagan, III, M.D.; John F. Doane, M.D.; and Jim Denning
Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today
1/1/2010
Why Medical Malpractice is Off Limits
The Wall Street Journal
Editorial
9/29/2009
How Missouri Cut Junk Lawsuits - An Editorial by Former Gov. Matt Blunt
The Wall Street Journal
Editorial
9/22/2009
Fraud by Trial Lawyers Taints Wave of Pesticide Lawsuits
The Wall Street Journal
8/19/2009
The Judges, the Lawyers, and the People
Common Sense with Paul Jacob
Editorial
7/28/2009
Drive Targets Judge Selection
Columbia Daily Tribune
7/13/2009
Judicial Selection Process Needs Reform
Southeast Missourian
Editorial
5/1/2009
Watchdog Groups Accuses Missouri Supreme Court of Violating Sunshine Law
Columbia Missourian
4/22/2009
Missouri Plan is No Way to Judge
Columbia Daily Tribune
Editorial
4/21/2009
Missouri Brakes - The Sue Me State Reconsiders Judicial Selection
The Wall Street Journal
Editorial
4/18/2009
Courts Criticized for Lobbying Against Bill
Jefferson City News-Tribune
4/12/2009
Bill Would Change Missouri Plan System of Picking Judges
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4/9/2009
Amendment Would Alter Missouri Plan
Springfield News-Leader
4/9/2009
Missouri House Passes Changes to Judge Selections
KWMU 90.7
4/8/2009
Judge Selection Plan Gets Initial OK from Missouri House
Columbia Missourian
4/8/2009
Harris Calls on Court to Halt Lobbying on Proposed Judicial Changes
KY3 Political Notebook
4/8/2009
House Approves Missouri Plan Changes on First Vote; One More to Go
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4/7/2009
Guest Columnist, James Harris: Reform Missouri Plan
The Joplin Globe
Editorial
3/13/2009
Missouri Plan Has Turned Too Secretive
Columbia Daily Tribune
Editorial
3/11/2009
Missouri Plan Needs a Major Overhaul
The Maneater
Editorial
3/2/2009
O'Connor: Tweak, But Don't Overhaul, Missouri Court Plan
Kansas City Star Prime Buzz
3/2/2009
O'Connor Offers Suggestions for Missouri Plan
The Maneater
3/2/2009
O'Connor Favors Missouri Method of Filling Bench
Columbia Daily Tribune
2/28/2009
Supreme Court Justice Defends Missouri Plan (Associated Press)
Springfield News-Leader
2/28/2009
Paterson Picks Nominee for Top New York Judge
The New York Times
1/13/2009
Candidates Clash Over Court Plan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
9/24/2008
Hulshof Suggests Changing Judicial Selection Process
Columbia Missourian
9/23/2008
The Road to Injustice
Southeast Missourian
Editorial
9/19/2008
Without Judicial Merit
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
8/23/2008
Missouri Plan Opposition Bi-partisan
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
3/20/2008
Improving the way we choose judges
St. Joseph News-Press
Editorial
2/12/2008
Great plan can improve: Lawmakers want to tweak the state's process for selecting many judges
St. Joseph News-Press
Editorial
1/9/2008
Rep. Lembke Proposes Updates To Missouri Court Plan
South County Times
12/28/2007
Missouri Compromised
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
12/22/2007
Bar Commits $500,000 to Fight for Plan
Missouri Lawyer Weekly
12/19/2007
Sides Brace for Battle over Judge Selections
Columbia Missourian
11/21/2007
Where Do Judges Come From?
Townhall.com
Editorial
11/18/2007
Proposal to Change Missouri Court Plan Floated
St. Louis Daily Record & St. Louis Countian
11/12/2007
Critics of Missouri Plan Lay Out New Judicial-Selection Proposal
STLtoday.com
11/8/2007
Observers Watch Missouri Judge Selection Process
NPR
10/21/2007
Blunt Trauma
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
9/17/2007
Supreme Court Showdown in the Show Me State
Human Events
Editorial
9/12/2007
Show Me the Judges
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
8/30/2007
Strongly Opposing Opinions Shape Activist Judge Debate
The Institute for Legal Reform
8/26/2007
Behind Closed Doors - How Missouri Makes Judges
Townhall.com
Editorial
8/19/2007
Updating this Plan
St. Joseph News-Press
Editorial
8/16/2007
The Missouri Plan in the Spotlight
Sam Adams Aliance
Editorial
8/16/2007
Let Sun Shine on Missouri Plan
Springfield News-Leader
Editorial
8/15/2007

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"Reduced to the plainest terms, judges have no right to pick their successors or colleagues and lawyers have no right to pick their judges."

- Warren D. Welliver, Missouri Supreme Court Judge, 10/28/1985

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