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Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
William Haltom
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Description for Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JP; LNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
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 mass ... Read more
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 mass ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226314648
SKU
V9780226314648
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