Law Professor Explains Why Lawsuits Are Good for America

The customer who sued McDonald's after scalding herself with coffee deserved every penny she won, says Carl T. Bogus, an associate law professor at Roger Williams University. And now hot drinks served in fast-food joints are probably safer. In fact, such litigation compels companies to behave and rightly leaves judgments of reasonable risk to the people, writes the former litigator in Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and Common Law (New York University

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