See You In Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation

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An impassioned rebuttle to Howard's The Death of Common Sense', Geoghegan shows how Conservatives' dismantling of the US postwar legal system has opened the floodgates of litigation. Arguing that people sue due to the loss of medical insurance, contracts and unions, and that without these methods of preempting and resolving disputes, American's face injury, bankruptcy, discrimination or injustice - are left with no recourse but to sue.'

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"Entertaining . . . breezy. . . . The essential charm of Geoghegans writing is his honest, self-deprecatory style." The Washington Monthly

"Good fun . . . [Geoghegans] a sharp thinker. . . . See You in Court makes a good case that deregulation has damaged the justice system in many ways." Chicago Reader

Author Bio

Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books, including In Americas Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Which Side Are You On: Trying to Be for Labor When Its Flat on Its Back, See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation, and Were You Born on the Wrong Continent: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life, all published by The New Press. He has written for The Nation, the New York Times, and Harpers. He lives in Chicago.