The race between Mr. Diaz and Senator Espada has been a highly unusual and litigious one, filled with courtroom battles that have gone up to the state's highest court.
It always gives us a little pause when we read through these forms, but we remind ourselves that, especially in California, we live in a litigious society, and one lawsuit can wipe out a business.
"We have a less litigious society," one Australian told me.
There is one other interesting and slightly odd precedent, the most terrifying example of a litigious child since that brat on Ally McBeal tried to sue God.
A public figure, true, but one with a litigious history.
Russia today is far from a litigious society, but the hostages' lawsuits are a step in the halting evolution of democracy, one that perhaps signals that the rights of the state do not automatically supersede those of the citizen.
Mr. Gottlieb -- who started TVT 18 years ago and turned it into one of nation's largest independent record companies -- has a reputation as a litigious music executive.
