The Tactical Use of the Litigation Deluge

(this is an excerpt from the Home Grown Food Network blog published July 6,2008. Read the entire blog here) The core tactic of the litigation used in the litigation deluge is to allege violations of rules saying that everything in the mobile home space should be “clean”, or “neat”, in “good condition”, or “neat,clean,attractive and well-kept fashion”, or “clean. attractive, and well kept fashion”. Then, armed with rules couched in such overly ambiguous terms, “mill” attorneys representing mobile home park owners beat a path to court again and again claiming “repeated violations’ without specifying how or why the violations occurred as they are required by law to do. Without the resources to be represented in court each and every time they are required to do so, a low income family falls into disrepute with the court, and so will inevitably drown in this litigation deluge. An essential embellishment of the tactic is to couch the litigation in terms designed to intimidate and bully low income tenants by threats of legal costs payable and deliberately exaggerating the amount of attorney's fees and punitive costs far beyond the ability of a low income family to pay. So, the project, being based on the concept that the right not to consume but instead to use recycled artefacts is an aspect of freedom, has been subject to the litigation deluge tactic.