An investigative report by a New Orleans television station has turned up the heat on Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell and his so-called “Buddy System,” wherein his big campaign contributors not so coincidentally get the lion’s share of no-bid contracts for litigation work on behalf of the state . . . → Read More: ATRA Ally Calls out Louisiana Attorney General for Pay-to-Play ‘Buddy Sytem’
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May 21st, 2013
May 21st, 2013
The American Tort Reform Association applauds Alabama lawmakers for final passage of legislation that will bring “good-government transparency to the state’s hiring of private sector attorneys on a contingency fee basis” . . . → Read More: Alabama Passes Important Transparency Bill, Limits State’s Hiring of Outside Counsel May 20th, 2013
A recent decision by Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court shows how disturbingly far consumer protection laws have been stretched and contorted beyond their intended purpose by plaintiffs’ lawyers and some courts . . . → Read More: Massachusetts High Court Promotes Practically Boundless ‘Consumer Protection’ Law May 14th, 2013
A newly released annual survey of the nation’s CEOs confirms that California, currently ranked as the #1 Judicial Hellhole, not coincidentally ranks as the worst state in which to do business, as well . . . → Read More: #1 Hellhole Ranks as ‘Worst State for Business’ May 13th, 2013
As reform legislation offered today in Wisconsin’s Assembly promises to close loopholes in the state’s outlier “lemon law” — loopholes that have been infamously exploited by unscrupulous lawyers there — a new video speaks to the character of one of those lawyers . . . → Read More: Video Speaks to Character of Wisconsin’s ‘Lemon Law King’ Now Fighting Reform April 26th, 2013
In a decision that should reduce the number of meritless medical liability lawsuits filed in the Garden State, a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court yesterday ruled that doctors called as expert witnesses on plaintiffs’ behalf must hold the same credentials as defendant physicians . . . → Read More: NJ High Court Raises Bar for ‘Expert’ Testimony April 24th, 2013
The Idaho Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld a lower court’s decison to declare Holli Lundahl Telford a “vexatious litigant” under a new law aimed at neutralizing those who repeatedly file frivolous lawsuits . . . → Read More: Idaho Justices Ban ‘Vexatious Litigant’ April 24th, 2013
Apparently tired of living in the shadow of Las Vegas, Nevada, jackpot justice capital of the Mountain West, little Las Vegas, New Mexico, in rural San Miguel County, has now become notorious for forum shopping as it vies for Judicial Hellholes status in its own right . . . → Read More: Forum Shopping in the Other ‘Las Vegas’ April 18th, 2013
A spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association today pointed out the fact that the national trial lawyers association and a personal-injury law firm known for aggressive advertising are both listing the same Washington, D.C., office address as theirs . . . → Read More: Is Trial Lawyer Lobbying Group Sharing D.C. Office Space with Bus-Advertising Slip-and-Fall Specialists? April 17th, 2013
Nevada’s leading newspaper has condemned the latest absurd verdict and half-billion dollar award for punitive damages in a string of deep pocket-targeting cases that has helped make Clark County courts look more and more like Las Vegas casinos . . . → Read More: Las Vegas Editorial Condemns Clark County’s ‘Lawsuit Lottery’ April 11th, 2013
In an op-ed published today by the State Journal in West Virginia, ATRA president Tiger Joyce offered support for the state’s new attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, and his proposed transparency policies aimed at providing the public with more information about the hiring of outside counsel . . . → Read More: ATRA Backs ‘Transparency’ Policies of WV’s New AG April 11th, 2013
Picking up where the latest Judicial Hellholes report left off, the Wall Street Journal this week editorialized about the consolidation game that asbestos kingpin Peter Angelos is trying to play in Baltimore . . . → Read More: WSJ Spotlights Asbestos Shenanigans in Judicial Hellhole April 2nd, 2013
It’s long overdue, but a nascent movement to hold accountable and punish those who pursue fraudulent lawsuits at the expense of taxpayers, consumers and jobseekers may finally be materializing . . . → Read More: Punishing Lawyers, Plaintiffs and Witnesses Who Conspire and Lie to Defraud Our Courts April 2nd, 2013
ATRA considers a recent ABA Journal story about constitutional challenges to statutory liability limits to be “largely fair,” but believes “it’s slightly weighted toward the view of plaintiffs’ lawyers and could lead a general reader to incorrect assumptions . . . → Read More: ATRA Mixes It up with Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Over ‘Constitutionality’ of Statutory Liability Limits April 2nd, 2013
The Missouri State Medical Association has launched a new website to boost the efforts of the Missouri Tort Reform Coalition, an alliance of medical groups and tort reform advocates supporting both legislation and a proposed state constitutional amendment to reverse a 2012 Missouri Supreme Court decision that struck down a reasonable statutory limit on awards for noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits . . . → Read More: Missouri Coalition Backs Bill, Amendment To Undo Bad High Court Decision March 29th, 2013
In recent years, it has become routine for plaintiffs’ law firms to announce investigations of mergers or acquisitions within hours of such an announcement. Lawsuits challenging such deals are filed, on average, within two weeks. Two recent developments may damper the plaintiffs’ bar’s enthusiasm for such lawsuits. . . . → Read More: Ninth Circuit Sanctions Plaintiffs’ Attorney for Vexatious M&A Litigation March 28th, 2013
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit this week threw a hard fastball under the chin of plaintiffs’ lawyers from the firm of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP for their habit of making allegations they couldn’t prove and possibly knew to be false . . . → Read More: Seventh Circuit Smacks Down Prevaricating Plaintiffs with Extreme Prejudice March 28th, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday delivered good news for those of us nauseated by self-serving promulgators of meritless class actions, and the high court is considering whether to hear still another important appeal that could further rein in class action abuse . . . → Read More: Good News on Class Actions, Hoping for More March 25th, 2013
A unanimous decision last week by the U.S. Supreme Court adds credence to the notion that Circuit Court Judge Kirk Johnson in Miller County, Arkansas may well be the very worst judge in America . . . → Read More: The Worst Judge in America March 22nd, 2013
The Kentucky Supreme Court has disbarred legendary Ohio plaintiffs’ attorney Stanley Chesley, the latest in a long line of his kind who’ve been undone by greed . . . → Read More: Yet Another Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Sanctioned for Greed |
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