Civil Litigation
Nov. 20, 2007
Reforming Class Action
A ballot initiative may be necessary to relieve the hidden tax burden of an out-of-control tort system - a bill that amounts to $10,000 a year for the average American family.
It is the ironic fate of many innovators that their achievements, often the result of a daring defiance of orthodoxy, become in time the new orthodoxy, and a bar to later innovation.
Thus, in the mid-19th century, the legal reformer David Dudley Field, upset by the abstruse and opaque nature of the law, drafted a streamlined model code, which, in its tightly packed 70 pages, included sections on civil law, procedure, political law and penal law. His avowed goal was to make the la...
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