Distorting the law : politics, media, and the litigation crisis / William Haltom and Michael McCann
- Author
- Haltom, William
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2004]
- Copyright Date
- ©2004
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 347 pages).
- Additional Creators
- McCann, Michael W., 1952-
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- The social production of legal knowledge -- Pop torts : tales of legal degeneration and moral regeneration -- In retort : narratives versus numbers -- ATLA shrugged : plaintiffs' lawyers play defense -- Full tort press : media coverage of civil litigation -- Java jive : genealogy of a juridical icon -- Smoke signals from the tobacco wars -- Law through the looking glass of mass politics.
- Summary
- In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by the m.
- Subject(s)
- Actions and defenses—Press coverage—United States
- Torts—Press coverage—United States
- Law in mass media
- Law—Political aspects
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Actions et défenses dans la presse—États-Unis
- Responsabilité civile dans la presse—États-Unis
- Droit dans les médias—États-Unis
- Droit—Aspect politique
- Sociologie juridique
- Responsabilité civile—Couverture de presse—États-Unis
- Droit dans les médias
- LAW—Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
- Massenmedien
- Rechtsprechung
- Rechtspolitik
- Berichterstattung
- United States
- USA
- ISBN
- 9780226314693 (electronic bk.)
0226314693 (electronic bk.)
1282426583
9781282426580
9786612426582
6612426586
0226314634
9780226314631
9780226314648
0226314642 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-327) and index.
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