>Only because that same lawyer culture creates a bias against regulatory and
>administrative procedures that would be a far more efficient and responsible
>system of curbing corporate crime. Creating a lottery system of justice with
>"private attorney generals" is an anti-democratic system of evading formal
>democratic regulation of corporate abuse. Our contingent-lawyer system of
>private justice may be better than nothing, but in many ways it also
>acts as an
>ideological salve for individuals that undermines demands for more
>comprehensive
>social reform.
Thank you. It's always seemed to me that American litigiousness is an individualized (and rather poor) substitute for politics, and one of Ralph Nader's major shortcomings is his apparently unexamined love of lawsuits.
Doug