Our civil justice system is "inconsistent and unpredictable," empowering lawyers and courts "to hold the fate of entire industries in their hands," writes law professor Lester Brickman in his book Legal Barons. Juries hit businesses with big awards for trivial infractions, and products that research has proven time and again are safe and effective, like the medicine Bendectin, get driven off of the market by waves of lawsuits. . .
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