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Now Available! Order from Amazon: Hardcover or paperback. You can also order the book from us -- at the cover price, plus shipping -- if you'd like it autographed by the author. More info here (opens in new window). Hardcover, 352 pages. $18.95 cover price Click to see full dustjacket

May it please the court: In one of his earliest newsletters, True Stella Awards author Randy Cassingham said, "There is no easy solution. This isn't something that 10 issues of an Internet publication will solve -- or 100 issues. Rather, it will take a lengthy and in-depth dialogue among informed citizens and reform-minded insiders to carefully weigh the pros and cons of various approaches, and then slowly and carefully introduce reforms.

"What's 'easy' is to laugh at a Winnebago driver putting the cruise control on so he can go into the back to make a cup of coffee, and suing over the resulting crash and winning a million dollars from a sympathetic jury from a big evil corporation. So easy, in fact, that it's a lie -- it never happened. But people love sending that story around. The recipients get a laugh, say 'ain't it awful?' -- and move on to the next joke. Not so with reading TSA cases: TSA gets deeper in, explores the issue in (yes!) interesting ways and from all sorts of different angles week after week, and explicitly points out that the solutions aren't obvious. Such an approach stimulates thought and discussion on an important topic that affects all of us."

Early Reviews: Astonishing: "Cassingham has selected an astonishing array of cases." --Publishers Weekly Funny: "The facts of the cases are funny enough all by themselves." --Booklist (American Library Assn) Read it: "How frivolous can lawsuits get? Just when you think you've heard it all, along comes a book that proves you haven't. Buy a couple of copies to give away as holiday gifts." --Business KnowHow Hilarious: "Randy Cassingham details sad and hilarious lawsuits." --East Bay Express A Gem: "After reading this book, it's not hard to imagine somebody suing Blockbuster for emotional damages incurred after the video store rented them The Notebook. It could happen." --South Florida City Link Magazine

The True Stella Awards newsletter is a great place to get a talking point to discuss the issue of frivolous lawsuits, but it's difficult for a short form publication to get in-depth, to look at this complex problem in a comprehensive way from several angles. That's where The True Stella Awards book comes in. It retells scores of cases, many of them updated with new information, and pulls it all together in one place with analysis of what to do next.

What The Book Covers

The book addresses just who is Stella, and what really happened with that cup of McDonald's coffee? Using lawsuits to further a political or personal agenda. Medical cases. Blaming someone else -- anyone else -- for what happens to you. What happens when bullies and cry-babies grow up (they take their fights into court!) The ever-expanding concept of the "right" to sue. Suits by inmates and criminals -- sometimes they sue their victims. The class action lottery. Lawsuits against schools. Just plain stupid cases. How corporations use lawsuits to fight competition and anyone who criticize them. Responses from lawyer-readers -- some of them just don't get it. And: pulling it all together: how can we fix the problem?

The result is a big book that takes a big publisher to pull it off. So Dutton (an imprint of Penguin USA) published The True Stella Awards: Honoring real cases of Greedy Opportunists, Frivolous Lawsuits, and the Law Run Amok by Randy Cassingham. It's available in hardcover for a reasonable $18.95 (before discounts; $26.50 in Canada). Randy was allotted 288 pages, but he couldn't stop without telling the whole story: the final book is 352 pages. It's available in hardcover and paperback.

Buy it from Amazon.com: Hardcover, or the new paperback.

Be Part of the Solution

Randy is constantly asked what ordinary people can do about frivolous lawsuits. His answer is in this book: it gives you everything you need to understand and intelligently discuss this urgent problem, and outlines common-sense reforms that need to be put into place. And best of all, the book is entertaining in a way that only Randy Cassingham can make it. You'll laugh so hard tears will stream down your face -- and you'll be so angry you'll cry out, demanding things change. (And that, Randy says, is what's most needed: a critical mass of citizens who understand the problem well enough to demand change. This is your chance to be a part of the solution!)

And you can order the book right now. It's available for order at Amazon in hardcover or paperback, or ask at your local bookseller. If you wish your copy to be autographed by the author, you can get it from his order site.

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