Mississippi doctors, chamber love damage caps, but critics say that isn’t justice

Haley Barbour and his backers at the Chamber of Commerce embarked on a campaign that ended with a shake-up in the state’s highest court and some of the nation’s most-stringent restrictions on lawsuits. In the process, they essentially hung the label “Jackpot Justice” on civil suits and so tainted the term “trial lawyer” that the Trial Lawyers Association changed…