Honestly, though, I suspect that the core of the problem with respect to the courts is that the court system in the US is fundamentally broken. Large numbers of the cases clogging US courts are basically frivolous, whether it's liability suits from people sueing the chainsaw manufacturer because there wasn't an explicit warning on the chainsaw not to balance the running saw across your leg while you reposition the log, or the Federal government trying to throw someone in jail for lighting up a joint or for violating one of hundreds of thousands of laws that he had no reason to even be aware of the existence of without having a full legal research department. America is drowning under the weight of lawyers — we have almost 50% more lawyers than either doctors or police officers, one lawyer for every two nurses, almost eight times as many lawyers as dentists, more lawyers per capita than any other nation in the world — and buried under ever-increasing reams of law and regulation, all of which must be complied with, and all of which costs money to comply with and to enforce. It's little wonder the court system is buckling under the load.
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Date: 2010-04-15 03:09 pm (UTC)Honestly, though, I suspect that the core of the problem with respect to the courts is that the court system in the US is fundamentally broken. Large numbers of the cases clogging US courts are basically frivolous, whether it's liability suits from people sueing the chainsaw manufacturer because there wasn't an explicit warning on the chainsaw not to balance the running saw across your leg while you reposition the log, or the Federal government trying to throw someone in jail for lighting up a joint or for violating one of hundreds of thousands of laws that he had no reason to even be aware of the existence of without having a full legal research department. America is drowning under the weight of lawyers — we have almost 50% more lawyers than either doctors or police officers, one lawyer for every two nurses, almost eight times as many lawyers as dentists, more lawyers per capita than any other nation in the world — and buried under ever-increasing reams of law and regulation, all of which must be complied with, and all of which costs money to comply with and to enforce. It's little wonder the court system is buckling under the load.