Book Presentation

Blocking the Courthouse Door examines the tort reform campaign in all its aspects. It debunks the widespread propaganda of the tort reform movement – from the McDonald’s coffee case to the millionaire class action plaintiffs – and looks at the real agenda of the movement’s backers, large corporations and the Republican Party. Mencimer argues that the charge by politicians that our country is in a legal crisis is, in short, a sham.

Stephanie Mencimer is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly. She has also worked as an investigative reporter for The Washington Post and a writer for Legal Times. She won the 2000 Harry Chapin Media Award for her reporting on hunger and poverty.

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