Contemporary legends about the civil justice system.

Discusses the emergence of a distorted picture of the United States tort system due to misrepresentation by corporate interests and the media. Perception that people are suing each other indiscriminately about frivolous matters; Awarding of large sums to undeserving claimants; Examples of legal urban legends; Atrocity stories; Assertions about aggregate patterns; Patterns of decontextualization.