STEPHANIE MENCIMER NOW HAS A WEBLOG . . . Stephanie Mencimer, a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly who often writes about tort reform, has a new weblog, The Tortellini. It's a companion to Mencimer's forthcoming book, Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and its Corporate Allies are Taking Away Your Right to Sue.

Here's what Mencimer says about her new weblog in a post--

“Tort reform” has become a staple of Republican politics. Limits on lawsuits are offered as a solution to everything from the health care crisis and economic stagnation to America's moral decline. Americans overwhelmingly believe that the nation is awash in frivolous lawsuits.

And that's just where The Tortellini comes in. Because most of what you’ve heard about “lawsuit abuse” is wrong. The majority sentiment on legal reform comes courtesy of a long disinformation campaign by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other big business sponsors like the tobacco, insurance and automobile industries. These folks have managed to convince voters from to Hawaii to Maine that plaintiffs in civil actions are whiners, hustlers, and layabouts, and that their attempts to win the “lawsuit lottery” have created a “litigation explosion.”

Sounds good to me. I'll keep reading.

Related posts:

1. "Bad Medicine" (1/1/04)

2. "We Interrput This Weblog to Bring You an Article About Tort Reform" (10/5/04)

3. "An Update Regarding a Post from Earlier This Week: Stephanie Mencimer Comments" (10/8/04)

4. "The Washington Monthly v. Overlawyered" (2/17/05)

Comments

[Carroll Straus]

it's about time someone used some ink putting the lie to the asinine assertions about "frivulous lawsuits" and "runaway juries." Most of us-- plaintiff and defense bar alike-- that most litigation in this country is "B to B"-- corporate stuff. and the jury system, while hardly perfect, is the ONE part of our government where the "little guy" really has a voice! (which is why holdouts are so common, I think.)

Keep reading... but also correct the misimpessions of as many of the lay public as you can. it is a sysiphean task, I admit. but necessary.