Well, most of the judges that refuse to throw out such cases were once trial lawyers themselves.
I do blame the Judges. I also blame the bar associations that aren't doing their job. I blame congress for protecting such greedy trial lawyers and even making what they do easier in return for large campaign contributions.
I blame politicians that appoint and confirm these judges.
I blame the voters that elect those judges that support and allow this in the cases where those judges are elected.
I blame the people that sign up on these class action suits out of pure greed.
There's lots of blame to go around, and it's going to take a broad effort to reverse the moral decay that is the root of the problem that allows this to continue.
Absolutely, but then again, all Judges are lawyers, so that would be redundant, wouldn't it?
Another problem I've seen in the aviation world is the juries. When someone in an aviation related field (or medical or whatever) are brought to trial they are rarely tried by a "jury of their peers". If you are a pilot and are being tried for general liability because of an accident, your jury should be made up of pilots, not housewives. If you're a doctor on trial, your jury should be made up of doctors, etc.
My experience with jury duty, after having been called up several times in the past 15 years, has been that every time I've been called I was dismissed because I hold two advanced degrees in engineering. As soon as that fact became known, usually to the defense side, I was dismissed. Folks with GED's and high school diplomas were the ones that were kept. IOW, trial lawyers don't want educated juries.....