| class="googleright"> | | | | making it all the way to trial. Most cases, for one |
| Apple pie, Mom, baseball â all those things say | | | | reason or another, never do reach the trial stage. As |
| America and so do lawsuits. In fact, America is the | | | | an added safeguard against excessive litigation, there |
| most litigious country in the world. The United States | | | | are even penalties for lawyers who knowingly file |
| has more lawyers per capita than any other country. | | | | cases that have no merit to them or are |
| According to the ABA (American Bar Association), in | | | | âfrivolous.â In fact, Rule 11 of the |
| 2006 there were over 1 million lawyers in the United | | | | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure [29 U.S.C. § 1927] |
| States. Because we Americans are such a litigious | | | | give the court the right to impose sanctions against an |
| people, we forget that the legal system is actually | | | | attorney or unrepresented party who files a lawsuit |
| designed to eliminate the necessity of cases even | | | | which has no arguable merit. |