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Exxon Shipping v. Baker

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The Rise of Right-Wing Talking Points

The idea that we are a litigious society is basically it borders on being common sense in the view of a lot of people. And so that there are people in this country willing to sue about anything and the hot coffee case where the lady spilled McDonald's coffee on herself and was a laughing stock of the talk show host. Only recently has the rhetorical tide turned back where people were like, actually that woman was severely burned. Right. That's how they came up in that. It would surprise a lot ofPeople to know that those things are oversimplified or wrong. They are right-wing talking points that successfully made their way into living room conversation.

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