TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haltom,William
AU  - McCann,Michael W.
TI  - Distorting the law: politics, media, and the litigation crisis 
T2  - The Chicago series in law and society
SN  - 9780226314693 (electronic bk.)
AV  - KF380 .H35 2004eb
U1  - 346.7303 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Actions and defenses
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - United States
KW  - Torts
KW  - Law in mass media
KW  - Law
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Sociological jurisprudence
KW  - Actions et défenses dans la presse
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Responsabilité civile dans la presse
KW  - Droit dans les médias
KW  - Droit
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Sociologie juridique
KW  - LAW
KW  - Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - პრესა აშშ
KW  - სოციოლოგიური სამართალი
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-327) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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