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Overdue Process

Protecting American Health Care Consumers
by Eleanor DeArman Kinney
(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002), 277 pp., $42.95

Lawyers make much of the distinction between procedure and substance. Procedural rights help people determine, in organized fashion, whether a substantive right exists and whether it has been violated. Labeling issues as procedural or substantive also demarcates zones of responsibility, separating lawyers’ authority from clients’ and courts’ responsibility from legislatures’. But skilled lawyers understand that the distinction between procedure and substance is artificial and can be modified or discarded when it seems to do more harm than good.

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William M. Sage

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