>>I don't know what the solution is, but it sure makes me mad.
Turning attorneys into pirates is not good public policy. They should get real jobs doing real work - not just extortion.
It can be stopped by taking away the rewards for their anti-societal behavior - change the statutes under which they sue. (That won't happen as long as we keep electing dem majorities.) Or judges could just stop awarding the huge fees. (But that won't happen.)