In "Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue," Stephanie Mencimer shows how corporate America won -- and the public lost -- the tort reform war. Though she's not the first to show how media coverage focusing on big jury verdicts for plaintiffs distorts the public's view of civil litigation, Mencimer traces the tort reform movement's origins in a way that no one has before. The book, however, suffers for its unabashedly partisan tone.
December 26, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
If you want to see how badly trial lawyers have lost the war for the hearts and minds of the American public, just watch the 2004 Disney-Pixar movie “The Incredibles.” Lawsuits force the movie’s cartoon superheroes to hang up their capes and leave the public vulnerable to criminal menace.
Sure, it’s only a cartoon. But the plotline shows just how successfully Republicans and their business allies have spread the idea that out-of-control litigation is harming America.
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