Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights The Battle over Litigation in American Society

Name: Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights The Battle over Litigation in American Society
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ISBN: 9780520243231

ISBN-10: 0520243234

ISBN-13: 9780520243231

Edition: 2002

Authors: Thomas F. Burke

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Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes inLawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rightsis a nation not of litigious citizens, but of litigious policies--laws that promote the use of litigation in resolving disputes and implementing public policies. This book is a cogent account of how such policies have come to shape public life and everyday practices in the United States. As litigious policies have proliferated, so have struggles to limit litigation--and these struggles offer insight…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 277
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Battle Over Litigation



The Creation of a Litigious Policy: The Americans with Disabilities Act



A Failed Antilitigation Effort: The Struggle over No-Fault Auto Insurance in California



A Shot of Antilitigation Reform: The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program



Understanding the Litigation Debate


Notes


Index