Distorting the law : politics, media, and the litigation crisis / William Haltom and Michael McCann.

In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued for year...

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Main Author: Haltom, William
Other Authors: McCann, Michael W., 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Series:Chicago series in law and society.
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