Regulatory overstretch interferes with the function of markets, promotes increasing litigiousness and inhibits freedom.

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As the participation by Italian shareholders in American class-action suits against Parmalat show, litigiousness is not a trait confined to America.

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After all, the service's civilian leader, Secretary Donald Winter, for one has expressed grave concerns about the impact domestic environmentalists and their litigiousness are currently having on the Navy and Marine Corps' operations.

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