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Distorting the Law (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Distorting the Law (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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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 media and reform proponents. "Distorting
the Law" lays bare how media coverage has sensationalized lawsuits
and sympathetically portrayed corporate interests, supporting big
business and reinforcing negative stereotypes of law practices.
Based on extensive interviews, nearly two decades of newspaper
coverage, and in-depth studies of the McDonald's coffee case and
tobacco litigation, "Distorting the Law" offers a compelling
analysis of the presumed litigation crisis, the campaign for tort
law reform, and the crucial role the media play in this process.
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