Octavo, hardcover, as new, fine in near fine dj. 388 pages. Demonstrates that our society is drowning in litigation.delays in trials, clogs businessmen face in commer e; a medical profession rendered overcautious for fear of malprictice suits; beginning in the 1970's it affects us at all levels.

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Title: The Litigation Explosion-What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit
Publisher: Dutton New York 1991. 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0525249117
ISBN 13: 9780525249115
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 3rd Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Uses examples to explain how changes in rules have made it possible to sue on almost any pretext and offers solutions to the problem

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Since the 1970s, according to Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, an explosion has taken place in American jurisprudence, and it is dangerous for everyone but lawyers and judges. It has resulted in our becoming the most litigious society on earth. Among the more insidious features of the new legal age are forum-shopping (picking the venue where a case has the best chance of succeeding), shotgun complaints (instituting a suit and then shopping around to determine in how many states one can simultaneously sue), depositions for discovery (asking hundreds of questions in hopes that some answers will prove incriminating). The catalogue of abuses by the legal profession cited here seems endless. Olson offers faint hope in his conclusion, urging that, to curb frivolous litigiousness, the loser in a case should pay all costs. An important book.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Olson concisely examines the 20-year evolution of America's sue-and-be-damned society. Written primarily for the nonlawyer, his book will appeal to anyone wondering why the litigation explosion developed, what it means, and who profits and who loses. Olson thoroughly discusses the Alternative Dispute Resolution and the recent Rule 11 legislation, which promise some hope for reform. Recommended for public and university libraries.
- Fern Sikkema, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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