The end of the Louisiana state legislative session is fast approaching. Legislators will adjourn on June 4, 2012, and with only a few weeks left in the session, one cannot help but wonder- how much longer before leaders take action to protect the state from costly legacy lawsuit abuse. . . . → Read More: The Time is Now for Louisiana Legislators to Take a Stand against Legacy Lawsuit Abuse
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Recent letters to the editor by the American Tort Reform Association have kept pressure on trial lawyer-backed opponents of tort reform, both in Sacramento, California, and Phildelphia, Pennsylvania . . . → Read More: ATRA Letters Keep Heat on Lawsuit Lovers in California, Pennsylvania  Comments are closed  Judicial Hellholes  California, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Sen. Darrell Steinberg May 9th, 2012
A just-released report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows that questionable slip-and-fall claims rose by 12% from 2010 through 2011, and not coincidentally many past and present Judicial Hellholes are where most of these bogus, bottom-feeding lawsuits are filed . . . → Read More: With Hellholes Leading the Way, Bogus Slip-and-Fall Claims Rise Nationwide Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, Chicago, Florida, Illinois, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, New York City, Philadelphia, slip-and-falls, Texas May 9th, 2012
On May 8, 2012, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee defeated A.B. 1878 (Beth Gaines-R) by a clean party-line vote of 3-7. This bill would have provided businesses much needed relief from frivolous ADA lawsuits. . . . → Read More: California Legislature Once Again Turns Back on Small Businesses, Defeats ADA Reform Legislation May 8th, 2012
On Monday, May 6, 2012, a Jenkintown-based law firm filed a ridiculous consumer fraud class action lawsuit against Comcast Spectacor, the parent company of the Philadelphia Flyers, on behalf of all 2011-2012 full season ticket holders. . . . → Read More: Disgruntled Flyers Fans Take “Passion” to New Level, File Ridiculous Class Action Lawsuit against Organization Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes class-action, Consumer lawsuit abuse, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia May 2nd, 2012
First the good news. Last week a jury ruled in favor of Union Carbide, the defendant in an asbestos lawsuit that once resulted in a $322 million verdict, the largest asbestos award for a single plaintiff in U.S. history. . . . → Read More: Good News, Bad News from Mississippi Courts Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes, Points of Light Asbestos Claims, Coahoma County, Jones County, Mississippi, noneconomic damages, pain and suffering, Smith County April 30th, 2012
Wilson v. Frito Lay is the latest food-related class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding to the growing wave of ridiculous consumer class action lawsuits filed there . . . → Read More: Potato Chip ‘Labeling’ Suit Latest of Ridiculous Consumer Class Actions in Northern California Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, Consumer lawsuit abuse, Eastern District of Texas, Food Package Labeling April 25th, 2012
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson has — incredibly enough — just ordered a new trial in Hernandez v. Schaefer Ambulance Service, the details of which are avialble in an earlier Judicial Hellholes post . . . → Read More: EXTRA! EXTRA! L.A. Judge’s Order of New Trial Can Only Encourage Lawyers to Con Courts April 24th, 2012
If it can be demonstrated that Los Angeles’s leading personal injury lawyer is lying to the court about how a $350,000 settlement was reached (or breached), he should be held in contempt and recommended for a severe law license suspension . . . → Read More: Transparent Tactics by L.A.’s Top Trial Lawyer May Warrant Contempt Charges, Bar Discipline Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes C. Michael Alder, California, Consumer Attorneys Asssociation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles April 20th, 2012
Like the pathetic excuses for parents who tried to sue McDonald’s because they apparently can’t control their 6-year-olds’ desires for Happy Meal toys, another group of incompetent parents is now suing Apple, claiming certain gaming applications, or “apps,” are “addictive” . . . → Read More: More Incompetent Parents File Another Pathetic Class Action in California April 18th, 2012
The joke was on low-brow bigmouth Howard Stern Monday when a New York judge dismissed his outrageously ungrateful lawsuit against Sirius XM Radio . . . → Read More: Ungratefully Litigious Has-Been Howard Stern Loses Lawsuit against Sirius XM Radio April 10th, 2012
According to 2011 data, the six states with the highest average payouts for medical liability lawsuits are all home to current or recently named Judicial Hellholes. Go figure . . . → Read More: Once & Future ‘Judicial Hellholes’ Dominate New List of States with Highest Medical Lawsuit Payouts April 5th, 2012
In a big win for lovers of hamburgers and cheap toys, and in a stinging defeat for incompetent parents who can’t control the acquisitive impulses of their young children, a San Francisco judge yesterday thankfully disposed of another crazy California consumer class action — this one targeting McDonald’s — like a garbage bag full of stale buns . . . → Read More: Siding with Hamburger and Toy Lovers, Judge Dismisses Incompetent Parents’ Class Action April 4th, 2012
John H. Cochrane’s Wall Street Journal piece, “What to Do on the Day After ObamaCare”, offers up a number of thoughtful, market-oriented health care reform alternatives that could quickly begin to reduce health care costs should the Supreme Court strike down current law. Glaringly omitted from Mr. Cochrane’s proposals, however, is any mention of meaningful medical tort reform. . . . → Read More: Where is the Obama Administration’s Pledged Commitment to Medical Liability Reform? April 2nd, 2012
This past week, ATRA, in conjunction with the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Alliance for Civil Justice and the US Chamber of Commerce, filed an amicus brief in the case of Cullen v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance. The Brief urges the Ohio State Supreme Court to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeals and hold that the trial court was correct to consider the factual and legal merits of the case when determining whether or not to certify the class under Rule 23. . . . → Read More: ATRA Brief Urges Ohio’s High Court to Follow SCOTUS Precedent on ‘Class Certification’ March 30th, 2012
Coming less than six weeks after a potentially game-changing judicial reform order in Philadelphia, the #1 Judicial Hellhole for the past two years, a judge in another perennial Hellhole has issued a comparable reform order that could serve to significantly shrink the nation’s largest asbestos docket . . . → Read More: Madison County Judge Orders Bold Reform Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes, Points of Light Asbestos Claims, Judge Clarence Harrison, Madison County, mesothelioma, reservation docket March 27th, 2012
ATRA is calling upon New York State to order an “older driver” reevaluation for the 83-year-old plaintiff who’s filed a $1 million lawsuit against Apple after she blindly walked into a glass wall at one of its stores . . . → Read More: ATRA Calls on New York to Reevaluate Driving Skills of Elderly Plaintiff Who Walked into Wall Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes Apple store, Barbara Fiala, Evelyn Paswall, New York, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles March 27th, 2012
On Monday, March 26, more than 100 attorneys crowded into a Madison County courtroom to listen as 61 asbestos defendants asked Associate Judge Clarence Harrison to revise the court’s 2013 advance trial docket . . . → Read More: Asbestos Defendants Make Case against ‘Reservation’ Docket in Madison County March 19th, 2012
An excellent op-ed by an ATRA ally in New Jersey encourages small business owners to get involved in politics and policy . . . → Read More: Small Business Owners Encouraged to Particpate in NJ Political, Policy Processes March 16th, 2012
Video cameras appear to be on their way to the plaintiff-friendly courts of Madison County as part of a pilot program recently approved by the Illinois Supreme Court . . . → Read More: Will Cameras in Madison County Courts Boost Fairness? |
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