Day on Torts
I read Andrew Cohen’s article in the Atlantic (Tort Reform is Anti-Democratic (And Ingeniously Marketed)) and thought I would summarize it for your convenience. Then I discovered that Philip Thomas had already done so, and quickly determined that he did a better job than I would have done.
Here is an excerpt of Philip’s post on his blog, MS Litigation Review:
In order to sell tort reform, corporate America applies a bait and switch commonly referred to as a “straw man” argument. Barry and Soccio define the straw man attack as follows in their book Practical Logic 104: