I really can't understand how there can be Senators who are actually using this judge as the judge to bring down the house. This woman is UNBELIEVABLE!!
This is from the Center for American Progress-
FORD:A more tragic case is the case of Willie Searcy. A defective seat belt left the teenaged Searcy paralyzed and in need of constant medical care after a car slammed into his Ford pickup. A jury awarded his family, which did not have the financial resources to pay for Searcy's care, millions of dollars in damages. Ford appealed, taking the case to the Texas Supreme Court. Owen took the case and allowed it to languish for years. When she did get around to writing the opinion, she took issue with a point of law that had not even been raised in the appeal, wrote long, complicated clarifications of a law that was no longer even on the books, "left the family with nothing and ordered a new trial." Searcy died while awaiting the Owen-ordered new trial. While Willie Searcy's case moved through the system, Owen accepted over $20,000 from Baker Botts, the law firm which was part of Ford's defense team.
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