On 7/17/05, Thomas Lepeardo wrote: > In the era of deregulation and lax enforcement, the threat of a private law > suit has been the main threat corporations feel from individuals. Also I > believe that starting in the 1980s there has been an influential conservative > libertarian school of legal thought called "Law and Economics" (from the > subject heading) that argued for massive privatization of regulation and > consumer protection on the grounds that private law suits could handle it > better. > > Now we see where all this winds up. First they get the de-regulation then > they eliminate the lawsuits.<
yes. But the tort lawyers are hardly blameless. They're capitalists of a sort. (Unlike many or most of Grishman's books, THE KING OF TORTS doesn't glorify lawyers who defend "everyman" against Big Corporations. It's a critique of the tort industry.) -- Jim Devine "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" -- Richard Feynman
