Most of the U.S. litigation that makes news involves the triumphant righting of a wrong or the enviable winning of a large cash verdict. In fact, though, U.S. courts spend much of their time holding back a flood of questionable claims. As a result, they often seem mainly to be telling Americans what the limits of the law arein short, who can't have what. Some current examples:
» A prisoner has no right of privacy. Without his knowledge, convicted Robber Harold Travers' parole hearing at Connecticut's Somers State Prison was secretly filmed and...
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