As you can see, governments all over the world are well aware that resolving disputes by way of litigation causes a great deal of damage to business, family, and community relationships.
Already, the threat of litigation has caused one leading gun maker, the Colt Manufacturing Company, to stop making guns for retail sale.
He contends that the A.M.A.-backed bill would have left employers open to formidable litigation and caused the number of uninsured to increase.
"Businesses ranging from the smallest start-up to the largest Fortune 500 company are suffering from the enormous waste that the threat of litigation and actual litigation are causing," said Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Assn. "Each one of these threats must be taken seriously by a company," he added.
Although antitrust litigation is painfully slow, expensive, and unpredictable, the mere threat of decertification followed by antitrust litigation might cause the owners to move at the bargaining table.
It is unclear if the litigation will cause a delay in the law, which is set to go into effect in August.
Fear of litigation "is causing senior management at corporate America to think very carefully and read much more closely the relevant provisions of merger agreements," he said.
If a "say on pay" vote fails, the resulting fallout of negative media attention and frivolous shareholder litigation can cause significant damage to a company's image and even its share price.
But that surge of specialized litigation has also caused raised eyebrows in some legal circles.
To try to cope with the logjam caused by litigation, Ms. Norton proposed that the service be permitted to ignore new lawsuits for a year, so that it could focus on identifying new species in peril.
