An urgent vacancy crisis confronts federal courts throughout the country because of the Senate's inaction, Clinton said at the annual convention of the American Trial Lawyers Association.

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The American Association for Justice, nee American Trial Lawyers Association, warned that these decisions mean consumers will be exposed to dangerous products without necessarily being able to sue over them.

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The group--formerly known as the American Trial Lawyers Association--criticized the Chamber for using a polling method that failed to discriminate between uninformed opinion and actual data about states like West Virginia.

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