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How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law
St. Martin's Griffin
July 2004
On Sale: July 1, 2004
388 pages
ISBN: 0312331193
EAN: 9780312331191
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political
Big-ticket litigation is becoming a way of life in the
United States. But something new is afoot-something typified
by the $246 billion tobacco settlement and by courtroom
assaults that have followed against industries ranging from
gunmakers to fast food chains. Each class action court
campaign seeks to invent new laws, to ban, tax, or regulate
something that elected law-makers had chosen to leave alone.
And each time the new litiga-tion elite reaps billions in
fees-they invest in fresh rounds of suits. The Rule of
Lawyers asks: Who picks these lawyers, and who can fire
them? Who protects the public's interest when settle-ments
are negotiated behind closed doors? Where are our elected
lawmakers in all this? The answers may determine whether we
slip from the rule of law to the rule of lawyers.
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