Follow POL on Twitter Senator Specter, apparently concerned that Senator Dodd's financial bill wasn't bad enough, has proposed an amendment to reverse the Supreme Court's decision in Stoneridge v. Scientific Atlanta (via BLT). I discussed the perverse results of such a legal rule in the Wall Street Journal in 2007.
Specter proposes overturning Stoneridge
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