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The Monster In The Television: The Media's Contribution To The Consumer Litigation Boogeyman, Kimberlianne Podlas
The Monster In The Television: The Media's Contribution To The Consumer Litigation Boogeyman, Kimberlianne Podlas
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Article investigates and quantifies television's, specifically syndi-court's, function as a messenger of norms regarding litigation and litigiousness. After acknowledging the pervasiveness of litigation anxiety within the business world, the Article outlines deleterious effect of that anxiety on litigation management. It is suggested that restricting litigation management to traditional models of rational analysis - models that ignore the individual rationality of consumer plaintiffs - fails to achieve the goal of accurately assessing litigation risk.
Some Comments On The Litigation Explosion, John W. Wade
Some Comments On The Litigation Explosion, John W. Wade
Vanderbilt Law Review
My comment must start with a strong commendation of Attorney General Bell for recognizing the crisis created by the current "litigation explosion" in our courts and for providing leadership in seeking means for alleviating and perhaps even solving it. I am sure that the Justice Department's new Section on Improvement in the Administration of Justice will prove invaluable, both as an originator and a clearinghouse for compiling and evaluating new ideas and as a means for putting them into effect. Dan Meador makes an ideal selection as assistant attorney general to head it. I also must commend the Justice Department …