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80 Neb. L. Rev. 17 (2001)
American Road Rage: A Scary and Tangled Cultural-Legal Pastiche

handle is hein.journals/nebklr80 and id is 27 raw text is: Robert F. Blomquist*
American Road Rage: A Scary and
Tangled Cultural-Legal Pastiche
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.  Introduction  ..........................................  18
II. Popular Media Accounts ..............................    20
A. Early Stories: 1988-1995 ...........................  20
B. Later Stories: 1996-2000 ...........................  23
1.  1996  ..........................................  23
2.  1997  ..........................................  24
3.  1998  ..........................................  26
4.  1999  ..........................................  28
5.  2000  ..........................................  29
III. Legal Media Accounts .................................   29
IV. Lawyerly Deployment .................................     35
A.  Law  Reviews ......................................  35
1.  1998  ..........................................  35
2.  1999  ..........................................  38
3.  2000  ..........................................  40
B. Legislative Materials ..........................      40
1. Congressional Road Rage Hearings: Opening
Statements by Committee Members ............      41
2. Congressional Road Rage Hearings: Key Witness
Testim ony  .....................................  43
C.  Judicial Opinions ..................................  50
1.  1997  ..........................................  50
2.  1998  ..........................................  52
3.  1999  ..........................................  57
4.  2000  ..........................................  60
V.  Conclusion  ............................................  62
© Copyright held by the NEBRASKA LAW REVIEW.
Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law. B.S. (Economics), Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania (Wharton School), 1973. J.D., Cornell Law School, 1977.
My thanks go to the participants in a faculty colloquium at Valparaiso University
School of Law for helpful comments on an earlier draft. Moreover, I am grateful
for the thoughts and observations of Ellen Jurczak. This Article is dedicated to
my road-raging brother-in-law, Frank Krieger.

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