Besides weakening the shareholder-lawsuit system, the LDP's proposed bill would strengthen the kansayaku system and, anti-reformers hope, strangle debate about alternatives, too.
A lawsuit challenging the system is to be heard this winter.
And his only hope for some kind of justice rests with a lawsuit against the system he once served well.
Air China, China Southern and China Eastern have also threatened to file a lawsuit against the system, according to a report on Chinese state television.
By agreeing to support reassessment, the county avoided the trial of a lawsuit challenging the system, which was to begin Tuesday.
The case seized public attention just as Marcia Robinson Lowry, a leading litigator for children, was preparing a broad class-action lawsuit against the system.
The two Democrats running against him, State Comptroller H. Carl McCall and Andrew M. Cuomo, the former federal housing secretary, charged that the governor, in opposing the lawsuit, supported a system that harmed children.
But on Thursday, a prison reform group and a disability rights group, with two San Francisco law firms, filed a class action lawsuit against the system contending that little had changed.
But weren't there really "two sets of rights of association," Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. asked Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., the lawyer who was defending the lower court's judgment on behalf of the voters and the disappointed judicial candidates who brought the lawsuit challenging the system.
While the vast majority of information on the various US watchlists remains hidden from public view, leaks and lawsuits portray a system that permits law enforcement agencies wide latitude for including people and minimal ability for those caught up in it to clear their names.
But before the company could begin production, it was hit with a patent infringement lawsuit from 3D Systems, which also accused Kickstarter of promoting the allegedly infringing product.
