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Distorting the law : politics, media, and the litigation crisis /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Chicago series in law and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by the m. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-327) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226314693 0226314693 1282426583 9781282426580 9786612426582 6612426586 0226314634 9780226314631 |