Is California a Lawsuit Happy State?

Plea bargaining is consuming most of the criminal justice system across the united states. It's very possible that the pressure on the tort side wasn't quite as developed, there just wasn't as much judicial business here. The development of the incidents of plea bargaining at that time in california was less than in the east. But by the 18 seventies, eighties and nineties, you see a lot of plea bargaining in almeda county. I don't have te dabta to know whether the same sort of tort revolution was driving that.