POLS 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter NA: Wield, Product Liability, Small Claims Court
24 Nov 2020
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Observers suggest that american citizens sue more readily than citizens elsewhere and that. American judges shape society more powerfully than judges elsewhere. Data indicates the american law"s notoriety does not result from how we handle routine disputes. Instead it results from the peculiar and dysfunctional way american courts handle a particular set of legal doctrines. Although businesses must make a good product, retaining good lawyers to protect the firm"s assets against those who would judicially exploit them would appear to also be a priority. If all of this is true, the need to protect a firm from judicially sanctioned theft is a distinctively american priority: the intellectual impulse to defend these outcomes is instinctively also uniquely american. The researchers undertook this project to quantify the use of courts across countries: they realized quickly that we could not reliably measure what really matters.
