We need to review legal system

Budd-Fallon documented three tax-exempt, non-profit groups that filed more than 700 cases against the Feds between 2007 and 2009. "Ranchers and other citizens are being forced to expend millions of their own money to protect their way of life (they have no chance of the same attorney fee recovery if they prevail)." In one 15 month long case the Earth Justice Legal Foundation and the Western Environmental Law Center filed for $500,000 in attorney fees. (Earth Justice said they count on those fees in part because it represents groups free of charge). "They're not filing these suits to protect the environment they're filing them to make money," she said. These attorneys are part of the same group that filed law suit after law suit, bankrupting a lumber company in Quincy putting 150 people out of work. Any legal system that allows this to happen is both morally and ethically corrupt. To their shame the California State Bar condones this activity! In order to receive millions in legal fees, all a group has to do is show a government body changed some policy or program as a result of their suit. The cash to cover these legal costs comes from our taxes through the Natural Resource Agency, the group charged with protecting our natural resources. Environmental attorneys get rich off our tax dollars, while the environment suffers because cash to clean it up is no longer available The reported salary of the president of the Environmental Defense fund is $446,000. The President of the World Wildlife Fund gets just under $440,000...read more