LEADER 04596nam 22009135 450 001 9910495965403321 005 20230607214820.0 010 $a0-520-93837-2 010 $a1-59734-706-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938373 035 $a(CKB)1000000000004575 035 $a(EBL)224562 035 $a(OCoLC)475931372 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189997 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215617 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189997 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10165995 035 $a(PQKB)10055199 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224562 035 $a(DE-B1597)520916 035 $a(OCoLC)55529607 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938373 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000004575 100 $a20200424h20022002 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLawyers, lawsuits, and legal rights $ethe battle over litigation in American society /$fThomas F. Burke 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2002] 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 225 0 $aCalifornia Series in Law, Politics, and Society ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22727-1 311 0 $a0-520-24323-4 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER 1. THE BATTLE OVER LITIGATION --$tCHAPTER 2. THE CREATION OF A LITIGIOUS POLICY --$tCHAPTER 3. A FAILED ANTILITIGATION EFFORT --$tCHAPTER 4. A SHOT OF ANTILITIGATION REFORM --$tCHAPTER 5. UNDERSTANDING THE LITIGATION DEBATE --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aLawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is a nation not of litigious citizens, but of litigious policies-laws that promote the use of litigation in resolving disputes and implementing public policies. This book is a cogent account of how such policies have come to shape public life and everyday practices in the United States. As litigious policies have proliferated, so have struggles to limit litigation-and these struggles offer insight into the nation's court-centered public policy style. Burke focuses on three cases: the effort to block the Americans with Disabilities Act; an attempt to reduce accident litigation by creating a no-fault auto insurance system in California; and the enactment of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. These cases suggest that litigious policies are deeply rooted in the American constitutional tradition. Burke shows how the diffuse, divided structure of American government, together with the anti-statist ethos of American political culture, creates incentives for political actors to use the courts to address their concerns. The first clear and comprehensive account of the national politics of litigation, his work provides a new way to understand and address the "litigiousness" of American society. 410 0$aCalifornia series in law, politics, and society ;$v2. 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zUnited States 606 $aActions and defenses$zUnited States 606 $aLawyers$zUnited States 610 $aaccident litigation. 610 $aamerica. 610 $aamerican culture. 610 $aamerican government. 610 $aamerican society. 610 $aamericans with disabilities act. 610 $acalifornia. 610 $acase study. 610 $aconstitutional tradition. 610 $acourt centered policies. 610 $adispute resolution. 610 $agreed. 610 $alawsuits. 610 $alawyers. 610 $alegal rights. 610 $alegal system. 610 $alitigation. 610 $alitigious policies. 610 $ano fault auto insurance system. 610 $apolitical culture. 610 $apolitics of litigation. 610 $apublic life. 610 $apublic policies. 610 $aunited states. 610 $avaccine injury compensation act. 615 0$aJustice, Administration of 615 0$aActions and defenses 615 0$aLawyers 676 $a347.73 700 $aBurke$b Thomas F.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01233937 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495965403321 996 $aLawyers, lawsuits, and legal rights$92865963 997 $aUNINA