Money has shaped the justice system for centuries through common law tort principles that balance financial restitution with moral accountability. But over several decades, that balance has collapsed. Wall Street and other big investors are now allying themselves with trial attorneys to take stakes in litigation outcomes. They have entered the courtroom through third-party litigation funding and accelerated the decline of justice from a pursuit of truth into a profit-driven enterprise.  What began as a system designed to make victims whole has become one in which financiers gamble on corporate risk aversion and human suffering. By stripping away the ethical restraints that once guided tort law, monetized justice has created a moral hazard, turning the courtroom into something between an amoral casino and an extortion racket. The first steps toward the perversion of our justice system came five years before Saul Alinsky advised community organizers to “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” The behavior of many litigation law practitioners is akin to that of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, a primer on militant strategy and tactics. In 1966, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were rewritten to create the “opt-out” class action, in which affected people are automatically included as part of a lawsuit unless they withdraw. This rule change opened the door for a new generation of mass tort lawsuits. In Alinskyite fashion, a key strategy was to turn defendants into...