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September 28, 2015

CT: Ralph Nader Opens U.S.'s First and Only Law Museum 
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Back in the United States, in Winsted, Connecticut, the U.S's first and
only law museum of any kind has opened. The new American Museum of Tort
Law was established by Ralph Nader in efforts to educate people about
the hard-fought history of consumer protections. Longtime consumer
advocate Ralph Nader spoke at Sunday's opening in his hometown.

Ralph Nader: "We've opened this first law museum of any kind in North
America, the American Museum of Tort Law, in order to enlighten and
educate people about the great benefits to their health, safety and
freedom that the law of wrongful entry, called tort law, has provided
them over 200 years. Look at, we have the torts law broke open the whole
tobacco marauding that takes 400,000 American lives a year, or the
asbestos curses that have killed so many Americans in this corporate
cover-up, and product defects in automobiles and pharmaceuticals,
hospital malpractice, and lack of security for apartment buildings. All
of these cases generated a message to the owners, the people who control
these companies, that it's cheaper to be safe than to be unsafe and
inflict terrible injuries on innocent people, whether they're customers,
workers or just people living in a community. That's what this museum is
all about."

 

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