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Un-Making Law : The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law
UnMaking Law The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law Author:Jay M. Feinman Conservatives are engaged in a campaign to turn back the clock on the common law—the law of contract, property, and personal injury—to increase the rights of big business. Some significant inroads have already protected gun manufacturers from lawsuits and hampered the government"s protection of the environment, for example; more roll... more »backs are on the horizon. Insurance companies and HMOs are anticipating a huge bonus if the rights of patients are severely curtailed by Congress.
"Un-Making Law . . . points out that George Bush"s agenda involves more than playing cowboy in Iraq and giving tax breaks to fat cats. It also includes enacting tort reform, which . . . would ultimately reduce legal protections available to ordinary Americans while increasing those same protections for HMOs, drug companies, and other manufacturers."
—Frank Rubino, Philadelphia Weekly
"I highly recommend this book . . . It recognizes that tort law is not the only target in this radical campaign to reduce consumer rights. Today"s neo-conservatives also seek absolute property rights and contracts free of government regulation. Feinman"s book is a thunderbolt."