See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation
Since the dawn of the Reagan era, America's traditional legal structures have been gradually undermined, replaced by a kind of legal rage that has led to an explosion in the number of lawsuits. Why do Americans sue each other as often as we do and how has this basic rift in our civic trust come to pass?
In an impassioned rebuttal to books such as Philip K. Howard's The Death of Common Sense, which argue that liberals have made the United States overly litigious, public-interest lawyer and award-winning author Thomas Geoghegan explains why these books have it backwards. In reality, Geoghegan argues, it is the conservative revolution that opened the floodgates of litigation and helped to spur the lawsuit culture that Howard and others decry. According to Geoghegan, the country's current addiction to litigation and the need to find someone wrong is a natural response to the right's dismantling of America's postwar legal system—a system based on contract, trust, and administrative law, in which it was not necessary to go to court in order to stay solvent, keep your job, or recover from an accident.
Sure to provoke heated debate, See You in Court shows why the right is wrong about the source of our lawsuit culture, and points the way back to civil society.
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Rich White Lawyer Opposes Quality Education for Poor Black Kids and other stories
#1. This Right Wing Child Advocate asks Mr. Rich Left Wing Lawyer Thomas
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Another masterpiece
We all know conservatism killed something. It's just hard for us to put our finger on exactly what. We smell it, we feel it, we taste it--how the elementary particles of civilization, the very molecules that join together our social life, have...
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Law for the nonlawyer
I have read and loved all of Tom Geoghegan's books because of Tom's search for a commonsense morality that can applied to the problems of our time. See You in Court extends that search to the way that the law has crept into most transactions in...
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Focus, Tom, Focus!
I really like this author and his work. I thought "Which Side Are You On?" was a tight, well-reasoned and passionate thesis on the current state of union leadership.
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Re-making the Rule of Law in America
There is no index; there are no notes, no citations of sources. With its fanciful writing, its humor and stretched arguments, at times it seems like fiction. But underneath it is serious non-fiction, designed to provoke attention to the important...
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