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"The philosophy used to be that you would take things in your own hands and deal with them in your own way," said Paul Murphy, a member of the City Council. "You'd stand in the queue - that was the British way." Now, he said, would-be litigants take photographs of sidewalks undergoing repairs and then make trip-and-fall claims against the city - nearly 90% of which end up dismissed as spurious.