The wheels have fallen off the once mighty Armstrong PR bandwagon and he who once lived by litigation may finally die by it.
(The litigation lives on).
"We live in a litigation-oriented society," said Rory K. Little, a law professor at the Hastings College of the Law at the University of California.
Because we live in a litigation-crazed society that can misconstrue good intentions to be undesired manipulation, schools often put the gag on teachers who might do more to reach their students.
But certainly during the litigation, living here in New Orleans, you got the feeling that Goodell targeted the Saints to pick on, for a reason.
Doctors and hospitals live in fear of litigation, ordering excessive tests and treatments that make health care unaffordable for Americans.
It would also go a long way to helping the problem if the myth about our compensation culture was laid to bed so people can get on with living their lives rather than constantly fearing litigation.
Hundreds of workers who could not return to jobs after 9/11 have had their lives interrupted until the litigation is settled.
Matt is a litigator with the Philadelphia law firm Monteverde, McAlee & Hurd, where he practices commercial, construction, real estate and personal-injury litigation, and lives in Cherry Hill, N.J.
How to make these relatively dreary (or, in worse cases, horribly frustrating) parts of our lives — taxes, insurance, loans, litigation, accounting, medical care, banking — less frustrating, confusing, and punitive.
Elleanor Chin is a lawyer, writer and litigation consultant living in Portland Oregon.
