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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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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.
 Media BuzzTalk of the Nation - September 27, 2006
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