| THE CASE AGAINST LAWYERS How the Lawyers, Politicians, and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law Into an Instrument of Tyranny— And What We as Citizens Have to Do About It Catherine Crier New York: Broadway Books, 2006 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-7679-0504-6 | ||||
| ISBN 0-7679-0504-0 | 244pp. | HC | $23.95 | |
| Page 16: | "If he gets hurt, who wants to bet that there will be a lawsuit." |
| Missing word: S/B "will not be". |
| Page 31: | "The expense is outrageous, the outcome wildly disparate, and the resulting case law, a nightmare." |
| Grammar: S/B "the outcomes wildly disparate". A single thing cannot be disparate all by itself. |
| Page 33: | "...walking the course was not integral to the sport despite arguments from players like Jack Nicholas and Arnold Palmer." |
| Spelling: S/B "Jack Nicklaus". |
| Page 36: | "The oil company had incurred millions of dollars in liability costs after its tanker ran aground with an intoxicated pilot at the helm." |
| Inaccurate: The Captain was intoxicated, but he was in his cabin. The pilot was steering the ship; it was inexperience that led to his running the Exxon Valdez aground on Bligh Reef. |
| Page 41: | "However, as they assimilate, their performance and aspiration deteriorates." |
| Number error: S/B "deteriorate". |
| Page 41: | "Children with no recognized disabilities often learn at different speeds or in a different ways from one another." |
| Extra word: S/B "in different ways". |
| Page 59: | "Methanol, a corn by-product, actually delivers less energy than it takes to generate the product." |
| Terminology: S/B "Ethanol". (Methanol might work — it is used in alcohol lamps — but it is poisonous.) |
| Page 93: | "If we excuse compliance because of our innumerable idiosyncracies..." |
| Spelling: S/B "noncompliance". |
| Page 114: | "If by age eighteen (or twenty-one) they still represent a threat to the community, adult supervision and the traditional prison system takes over." |
| Number error: S/B "take". |
| Page 122: | "The quantity and purity of street drugs is at an all-time high, and the price remains low." |
| Number error: S/B "are higher than ever". |
| Page 126: | "This percentage is the very same number statisticians cited forty years ago." |
| Nit: it's not one number but a range of numbers. (Emphasis in original.) |
| Page 132: | "Money and influence buys probation and therapy for whatever ails you." |
| Number error: S/B "buy". |
| Page 136: | "In the private sector, there are countless securities guards..." |
| Number error: S/B "security". |
| Page 144: | "The Pentagon and Defense departments took a backseat..." |
| Missing space: S/B "back seat". (Also: "Pentagon and the Defense Department".) |
| Page 148: | "...a German company, Veba..." |
| Spelling: down the page this is referred to as "Vega." |
| Page 151: | "Robert Kaplan pointed out in a fascinating piece..." |
| What did he point out? (Perhaps S/B "pointed this out".) |
| Page 154: | "Yet each of these companies have profits of at least half a billion dollars a year." |
| Number error: S/B "has". |
| Page 176: | "Despite this supposed intent, they are rarely nonpartisan." |
| The way the author describes this "supposed intent" makes being partisan inevitable. |
| Page 176: | "Since that time, the media and its cohort, the Federal Communications Commission, have steadily eroded this obligation..." |
| Number error: S/B "the media and their cohort". (Also, "cohort" seems the wrong term for the FCC here.) |
| Page 179: | "We must debunk ourselves of the more noble notions..." |
| Word choice: S/B "disabuse". |
| Page 180: | "It's members make money either way." |
| Punctuation: S/B "Its". |
| Page 193: | "Upon announcing an attack on HMOs, those businesses experienced a $12 billion stock drop in a single day." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "When an attack on HMOs was announced". |
| Page 197: | "...the government's recovery in a tort suit along with any punitive damage from civilian ligigation be assigned to remedy the subject problem, such as pollution or consumer safety." |
| Terminology: "consumer safety" is not a problem; S/B "safety defects in consumer products" or equivalent. |
| Page 199: | "Never doubt that a few people can change the world. In fact, that's the only thing that ever has." |
| The author misquotes Margaret Mead. S/B "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has." |
| Page 200: | "OSHA couldn't scream about the lack of safety rails around the gapping holes emitting fire and fumes." |
| Spelling: S/B "the gaping holes". |
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