The quote with which I chose to headline this post is taken from Billy Bragg's song Rotting on Remand and it captures, I think rather well, the frustrating impotence of the law. The law can take away your life, liberty or property, but it cannot do justice. As an attorney practicing in Louisiana, I deal constantly with this tension, for our Civil Code intones that "every act whatever of man of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it." But la loi ...