Nick Demos wrote:

> Cutting down on unnecessary litigation is simple if our law
> makers have the
> stomach for it.  Do as is done in Britain (and some other
> countries).  The
> loser pays the legal fees of the winner.  This makes the stakes
> much higher for
> the frivolous litigant.

I think this is largely correct.  It is the lawmakers and the courts
interpreting laws that make it possible for the lawyers to sink their teeth
in.  Of course they are mostly lawyers.  At a deeper level it is the
philosophers who sic them all on us.

Jim

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