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New book examines how Americans enforce the law
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dacalla lemmy.zip dacalla@lemmy.zip
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CombatWombat feddit.online CombatWombat@feddit.online
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One of the “benefits” of private enforcement is that Congress can pass a law that affects the rich and the poor alike with the assurance it will never be used against the rich because the poor can’t afford a lawyer to get the law enforced

“Americans realize that we have a lot of lawyers and that federal courts settle important controversies,” Zambrano says. “But I don’t think they realize that litigation is deliberately used by the state legislatures and Congress as a way to regulate misbehavior.”

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some_designer_dude lemmy.world some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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Chapter One: They Don’t. Unless you’re poor.

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Kintarian lemmy.world Kintarian@lemmy.world
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Are you rich? You may go
Are you poor? Off to jail!

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