| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 347 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
The Chicago series in law and society
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Chicago series in law and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-327) and index. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Actions and defenses -- Press coverage -- United States.
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Actions and defenses. |
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Press coverage. |
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United States. |
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Torts -- Press coverage -- United States.
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Torts. |
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Law in mass media.
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Law in mass media. |
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Law -- Political aspects.
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Law -- Political aspects. |
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Sociological jurisprudence. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Law. |
| Added Author |
McCann, Michael W., 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haltom, William. Distorting the law. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004 9780226314648 (DLC) 2004001268 (OCoLC)54082261 |
| ISBN |
9780226314693 (electronic book) |
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0226314693 (electronic book) |
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9780226314631 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226314634 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226314648 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0226314642 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0226314634 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226314642 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
