CALA Chairman John Merchant and NFIB/California Executive Director John Kabateck published an opinion-editorial in the Weekly Calistogan. In it, they wrote:

"Whatever change voters were seeking last November, there is no record of any mass of them calling for greater rights for lawyers to sue. Sensing a new political mood afoot in the nation, however, personal injury attorneys are girding their loins for another charge at changing state laws to enrich themselves through artificially aggrieved clients and billable hours — and nowhere is that more evident than in California."