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...course, if the case were tried under American tort law, a jury would probably award the Lithuanians an additional $4 trillion for pain and suffering...
...think that this joke has a strong element of truth at its core. Patterson and Davis use phrases such as "Social Studies teaching...a dead end professionally," "graduate students..[who] become pre-tort coaches rather than apprentice...teachers" and "disloyal," which appear to be veiled and not-so-veiled threats to their graduate students who teach in Social Studies...
...same can and should be said about the graduate students who are teaching fellows in Social Studies. They are not pre-tort coaches, and teaching in Social Studies has never been a professional dead-ened. Among those who have taught in Social Studies are some of the finest sociologists, economists and political scientists in America today...
...vigilance. Accustomed to success in translating their private anxieties into public activity -- protesting a war, toppling a President, taking over universities -- they turned to perfecting their immediate environment in the 1970s, pressing the Government for help and suing anyone who did not share their finicky obsessions. Safety regulations multiplied, tort law boomed, liability-insurance rates soared...
...everyone shares Lipsig's view of his usefulness to society. Critics of big damage judgments blame aggressive liability lawyers for causing insurance rates to skyrocket and for putting the bite on city governments whose "deep pockets" are filled with taxpayer dollars. Says Blair Childs, executive director of the American Tort Reform Association, a lobby group in Washington: "Harry Lipsig typifies the system where no one wins but the likes of Harry Lipsig. A few others win big with him. But society is hurt...