{"id":294,"date":"2007-06-19T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T15:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=294"},"modified":"2007-06-19T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T15:33:23","slug":"the-67-million-travelling-pants-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"The $67 Million Travelling Pants Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Olson has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110010225\">best take<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This sort of mechanical damage-multiplication has been a key engine in shakedown scandals in California (where roving complainants have mass-mailed demand letters to small businesses over technical infractions); in &#8220;junk-fax&#8221; litigation demanding billions from hapless merchants in Texas, Illinois and elsewhere; and in important sectors of litigation aimed at bigger businesses, including claims against credit-card providers and purveyors of &#8220;light&#8221; cigarettes. Whole dockets&#8217;-worth of opportunistic litigation would dry up if we revised these laws so as to require a showing of actual injury. Doing so would require overcoming epic resistance from the litigation lobby.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see that even the organized plaintiffs bar piously deplores Mr. Pearson&#8217;s abuse of the law. It would be even nicer if they agreed to stop opposing reforms that would give the Chungs of the world a fighting chance the next time around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t read Olson&#8217;s overlawyered blog, <a href=\"feed:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/atom.xml\">do so<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Olson has the best take: This sort of mechanical damage-multiplication has been a key engine in shakedown scandals in California (where roving complainants have mass-mailed demand letters to small businesses over technical infractions); in &#8220;junk-fax&#8221; litigation demanding billions from hapless merchants in Texas, Illinois and elsewhere; and in important sectors of litigation aimed at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The $67 Million Travelling Pants Suit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}