[hirundo]

It is a strength of the U.S. system that outsiders to a case can contribute toward it. That's as true when the outsider is a private individual with a grudge as when they're the ACLU or Sierra Club. It is a weakness of the U.S. system that a jury has the power to destroy a company with excessive judgments, as in the Hulk Hogan case. I don't have the solutions to this, but I am clear that one of them is not to limit potential plaintiffs to their own resources.