CASE AGAINST LAWYERS, THE(万恶律师为首)|报价￥51.10|图书,进口原版,Non Fiction 人文社科,Government 政府,
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基本信息
·出版社：
Broadway Books
·页码：256 页码
·出版日：2002年
·ISBN：0767905040
·条码：9780767905046
·版次：1
·装帧：精装
·开本：20开 20开
内容简介
Book Description
The Case Against Lawyers is both an indictment and plea for a return to common sense. It decries a system of laws so complex that even their enforcers - such as the IRS - cannot understand them. It unmasks a litigation-crazed society where billion-dollar judgments serve mostly to line the pockets of personal injury lawyers. It deplores the stupidity of a liability system that leads to such results as a label on a stroller that warns: Remove Child Before Folding. It indicts a criminal justice system that puts minor drug offenders away for life, yet allows celebrity murderers to walk free. And it excoriates the sheer corruption of the iron triangle of lawyers, bureaucrats, and politicians who profit mightily from all this inefficiency, injustice, and abuse.
FromPublishers Weekly
"You can't win, but the lawyers will": in support of this statement, former judge and Court TV personality Crier strings together anecdotes highlighting the unfairness and economic inefficiencies that lawyers have engendered in a commonsensical and sometimes shocking indictment. A self-described "inveterate newspaper clipper," Crier bases her argument on examples of legal excess. A woman who collected $450,000 after tripping in a Tucson park gopher hole illustrates how extreme civil damage awards have become. (Her lawyer contended that the city needed to "provide a safe alternative to dodging holes and caved-in tunnels.") Fear of lawsuits has led to all kinds of absurdities, like the warning on the baby stroller that reads, "Remove child before folding." Crier couples her storytelling with a folksy Texas vernacular that makes her points accessible to nonlawyers. Her contention that the legal system is broken is not new, and she acknowledges her debt to books such as Philip K. Howard's The Death of Common Sense. In her desire to convince, however, she tends to overstate her case and sometimes the law itself. When Richard Garcia sued police for not arresting him for public intoxication, thereby allowing him to get into a later car wreck, Crier writes, "We seem to expect cops to anticipate new court decisions as their behavior is critiqued after the fact." But the Supreme Court holds that government officials are immune from suit unless they violate "clearly established" rights. In her defense, however, Crier makes no pretense of presenting a balanced, scholarly book. Hers is an amusing polemic that correctly identifies many of our legal system's problems. Agent, Jan Miller.
FromLibrary Journal
Crier, a former district attorney, lawyer, and judge and host of Court TV's Crier Report, here argues that "the rule of law has become a source of power and influence, not liberty and justice" and is being used by lawyers and others to the detriment of society. She sees U.S. law as often not clearly understood, fair, or reasonable and as more adversarial than truth seeking. At her best, Crier offers clear and forceful critiques of such issues as the war on drugs, the death penalty, and criminal sentencing and proposes thoughtful changes to current laws. She is at less than her best, though, on topics such as jury awards and lawyer fees in lawsuits, on suits involving disadvantaged groups, and on regulation, the revolving door, lobbyists, and campaign contributions. Here she blends considerable legitimate criticism with lengthy diatribes full of wordy examples. The content is mainly opinion, although newspapers are quoted and events, studies, and statistics cited. For a well-written and -researched book with a distinctly different view of lawyers and civil law, see Carl T. Bogus's Why Lawsuits Are Good for America. Recommended for public libraries.
--Mary Jane Brustman, SUNY at Albany Libs., NY
Book Dimension
Height (cm) 24.2 Width (cm) 16.4
作者简介
CATHERINE CRIER，currently hosts Catherine Crier live on Court TV.She began her television career as news anchor and talk show host at CNN went on to win her first Emmy in 1996 for her work as a correspondent on ABC s 20/20 then hosted an issues show for the FOX News Channel A former lawyer and judge from Dallas Catherine resides in Westchester County with her dogs and horses.
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From Publishers Weekly
"You can't win, but the lawyers will": in support of this statement, former judge and Court TV personality Crier strings together anecdotes highlighting the unfairness and economic inefficiencies that lawyers have engendered in a commonsensical and sometimes shocking indictment. A self-described "inveterate newspaper clipper," Crier bases her argument on examples of legal excess. A woman who collected $450,000 after tripping in a Tucson park gopher hole illustrates how extreme civil damage awards have become. (Her lawyer contended that the city needed to "provide a safe alternative to dodging holes and caved-in tunnels.") Fear of lawsuits has led to all kinds of absurdities, like the warning on the baby stroller that reads, "Remove child before folding." Crier couples her storytelling with a folksy Texas vernacular that makes her points accessible to nonlawyers. Her contention that the legal system is broken is not new, and she acknowledges her debt to books such as Philip K. Howard's The Death of Common Sense. In her desire to convince, however, she tends to overstate her case and sometimes the law itself. When Richard Garcia sued police for not arresting him for public intoxication, thereby allowing him to get into a later car wreck, Crier writes, "We seem to expect cops to anticipate new court decisions as their behavior is critiqued after the fact." But the Supreme Court holds that government officials are immune from suit unless they violate "clearly established" rights. In her defense, however, Crier makes no pretense of presenting a balanced, scholarly book. Hers is an amusing polemic that correctly identifies many of our legal system's problems. Agent, Jan Miller. (On sale Oct. 8)
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Crier, a former district attorney, lawyer, and judge and host of Court TV's Crier Report, here argues that "the rule of law has become a source of power and influence, not liberty and justice" and is being used by lawyers and others to the detriment of society. She sees U.S. law as often not clearly understood, fair, or reasonable and as more adversarial than truth seeking. At her best, Crier offers clear and forceful critiques of such issues as the war on drugs, the death penalty, and criminal sentencing and proposes thoughtful changes to current laws. She is at less than her best, though, on topics such as jury awards and lawyer fees in lawsuits, on suits involving disadvantaged groups, and on regulation, the revolving door, lobbyists, and campaign contributions. Here she blends considerable legitimate criticism with lengthy diatribes full of wordy examples. The content is mainly opinion, although newspapers are quoted and events, studies, and statistics cited. For a well-written and -researched book with a distinctly different view of lawyers and civil law, see Carl T. Bogus's Why Lawsuits Are Good for America. Recommended for public libraries.
--Mary Jane Brustman, SUNY at Albany Libs., NY
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
FromBooklist
In another diatribe against the victimization of America, well-known television courtroom commentator Crier tells how she's fed up with the system. A lawyer and a former judge herself, Crier knows of what she speaks. And she doesn't take sides. Both the Right and the Left are maligned for their influence peddling, whether it's the Clinton White House's cozy relationship with China or the younger Bush's connections to Enron. Although she spares no one, plaintiffs' attorneys are a particular sore spot, and she blames them for everything from silly warning labels (such as "remove child before folding" on a stroller) to skyrocketing damage awards (including treble damages, which are meant to be punitive but which go to the plaintiff and her attorney rather than back to society) to class action suits that result in the lawyer getting a hefty fee while millions of perhaps disabled plaintiffs get nominal recovery. Her arguments are grounded, certainly, but we've heard it all before. To her credit, Crier takes a stab at finding a solution in the final chapter, but the changes she proposes are so vast that it reads more like a stump speech, full of "we should's" on such matters as civil litigation, regulatory law, and politics in general. She might get your ire up, but to what end?Mary Frances Wilkens
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"Catherine Crier lambastes the Democrats, the Republicans, the businessmen, and the bureaucrats in this inspiring call to re-democratize America."--This text refers to theAudio CDedition.
Review
Advance Praise forThe Case Against Lawyers:
“Catherine Crier blows the top off of the courthouse. Her very readable critique on how lawyers and judges have created chaos and injustice within our justice system is a must read!”
– Bill O’Reilly
“The Case Against Lawyersputs the law back where it belongs – in the hearts, minds and hands of the American people – while revealing the tactics and ruses that took it away from them in the first place. Part judge, part sleuth, and all sage, Catherine Crier manages to make the ultimate case for a return to democratic justice.”
– Arianna Huffington
“Passionate and hard-hitting,The Case Against Lawyersmakes an overwhelming case for broad legal overhaul. By applying her own strong moral code to America’s problems, Catherine Crier demonstrates the critical missing element in American law.”
– Philip Howard
“Catherine Crier knows where the bodies are buried in the legal world, and in this book, she unearths a graveyard of misdeeds by lawyers and makes a case for protecting the public from the self-serving way of the legal profession. As a former lawyer, judge, and now television anchor, Crier knows the sly and subtle way of lawyerly self-interest, and she has the journalistic skills to make non-lawyers take notice and seethe. Her book is a testament to all of us who revere the legal system but regret its correctible shortcomings.”
– Fred Graham, Chief Anchor, Court TV
“Catherine Crier lambastes the Democrats, the Republicans, the businessmen and the bureaucrats in this inspiring call to redemocratize America.”
– Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Arianna Huffington
"The Case Against Lawyers puts the law back where it belongs - in the hearts, minds, and hands of the people."--This text refers to theAudio CDedition.
Review
Advance Praise forThe Case Against Lawyers:
?Catherine Crier blows the top off of the courthouse. Her very readable critique on how lawyers and judges have created chaos and injustice within our justice system is a must read!?
? Bill O?Reilly
?The Case Against Lawyersputs the law back where it belongs ? in the hearts, minds and hands of the American people ? while revealing the tactics and ruses that took it away from them in the first place. Part judge, part sleuth, and all sage, Catherine Crier manages to make the ultimate case for a return to democratic justice.?
? Arianna Huffington
?Passionate and hard-hitting,The Case Against Lawyersmakes an overwhelming case for broad legal overhaul. By applying her own strong moral code to America?s problems, Catherine Crier demonstrates the critical missing element in American law.?
? Philip Howard
?Catherine Crier knows where the bodies are buried in the legal world, and in this book, she unearths a graveyard of misdeeds by lawyers and makes a case for protecting the public from the self-serving way of the legal profession. As a former lawyer, judge, and now television anchor, Crier knows the sly and subtle way of lawyerly self-interest, and she has the journalistic skills to make non-lawyers take notice and seethe. Her book is a testament to all of us who revere the legal system but regret its correctible shortcomings.?
? Fred Graham, Chief Anchor, Court TV
?Catherine Crier lambastes the Democrats, the Republicans, the businessmen and the bureaucrats in this inspiring call to redemocratize America.?
? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
目录
Introduction
1
1 We Love Our Rules
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2 Liberty versus Equality
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