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The Lawsuit Lottery
The Hijacking of Justice in America
March 21, 2005
By
Benjamin and Douglass Lodmell
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| Phoenix, Arizona - The following is a reivew on the book titled "THE LAWSUIT LOTTERY - The Hijacking of Justice in America" by authors Douglas S. Lodmill & Benjamin R. Lodmell.
"Then a lawyer said. But what of our laws, master?
And he answered: You delight in laying down laws,
Yet you delight more in breaking them."
—The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1883-'1931)
With more than a million lawyers and 70,000 lawsuits a day, the U.S. civil justice system has been corrupted into a gigantic get-rich-quick lottery— a new national pastime played 20 million times a year by a growing army of self- styled "victims" and their increasingly powerful and predatory attorneys.
No one is excluded from the The Lawsuit Lottery. In today's greed-driven, none-for-all-and-all-for-one society, Americans are suing each other for every conceivable complaint—regardless of merit or the common good—in a dysfunctional tort system that is no longer civil or just.
At stake is a payout bigger than all the legitimate state and national lotteries combined—a "tort tax" of almost $1 trillion in the past five years alone, plus at least another $3 trillion in court judgments and settlements in the next decade.
Gone is the public's sense of responsibility and accountability. These have been replaced by self-serving feelings of entitlement to the wealth of others and a cynical, paralyzing fear of a legal system where too much law is practiced and not enough justice is dispensed.
The Lawsuit Lottery is a social commentary that attempts to shed light on the hijacking of justice in America by the world's costliest tort system. In so doing, the book exposes the devastating harm being inflicted by a broken legal system on the nation's economy, the character and freedom of its citizens, and the legitimacy of the United States in the international community.
Among the most urgent reforms suggested by the authors is the reestablishment of our civil courts as havens for reasonable redress of legitimate disputes, where the Rule of Law—the backbone of America's legitimacy—once again can be relied upon to dispense justice equitably, and where attempted abuse of the tort system can be quickly and strongly discouraged by judges rededicated to ensuring Justice is served instead of assessing liability.
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