[FRIAM] litigiousness

[glen]

I decided to fact-check my claim that we're litigious. Luckily, I found an article <https://hls.harvard.edu/bibliography/are-americans-more-litigious-some-quantitative-evidence/> that disagrees with me. They argue that our "first order law" is on par with other wealthy democracies (and do discuss some other systems as well). But the conclusions of the article also relate to the idea that Trump knows how to play our judicial system. They claim the "second order law", e.g. class actions, is where we are distinguishable. A fun passage is:

    'As the pre-eminent class-action lawyer William Lerach once infamously
    bragged (now, for his litigation tactics, a convicted felon): "I have the best practice in the
    world. I have no clients."'

I'm too ignorant to make an argument that election-related court cases and such are "second order". But the recent shenanigans with judges Cannon and Kacsmaryk feel like that to me.

Sheet1
	Australia 	Canada 	France 	Japan 	UK or England 	USA
Suits filed/100k ppl 	1542 	1450 	2416 	1768 	3681 	5806
Judges/100k ppl 	4 	3.3 	12.47 	2.83 	2.22 	10.81
Lawyers/100k ppl 	357 	26 	72 	23 	251 	391
Motor Insurance (%GDP) 	0.81 	1.35 	0.93 	0.72 	0.93 	1.45
Motor Insurance (US$/car) 	664 	1574 	786 	754 	927 	1464
Cost of Contract action (% of value) 	20.7 	22.3 	17.4 	22.7 	23.4 	14.4

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