Writing in Reason, Michael McMenamin blasts prominent tort reform opponent and Rhode Island law professor Carl Bogus’s latest book, Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law:
Bogus believes the current tort system is just fine. Horror stories from tort reformers about excessive jury verdicts are no more than corporate whining, he argues. What
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I would prefer having government regulations voted on by popularly-elected representatives and carried out by a popularly elected executive than having them foisted on us by trial lawyers and judges only answerable to each other. By the way, what is the justification for punitive damages?
Dunno. Good question…