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Publication Date: March 1986
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): James L. Gattuso; John E. Buttarazzi
Research Area: Law and ethics
Keywords: Legal issues
Type: Report
Abstract:
The problems in the U.S. tort system are deep and far-reaching. They are not the result of any single law or any particular court decision--they are, rather, the consequence of decades in which legal changes slowly eroded traditional defenses, decreased the importance of individual responsibility, and made the system more vague and unpredictable. The result is that the U.S. tort system is less a process of compensation for wrongs and more a huge national lottery.