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
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 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 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 13th, 2012
A recent California Supreme Court provides the state’s employers with greater flexibility in operating their establishments. It will help to curb wage-and-hour class actions in the state, allowing many employers to “breathe a huge sigh of relief.” The Court’s decision may indicate a trend of fair rulings for California businesses. . . . → Read More: California Employers Breathe ‘Huge Sigh of Relief’ 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 March 28th, 2012
In recent weeks, US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) has taken California legislators to task and urged them to address the excessive amount of “predatory” disability lawsuits that are plaguing the state. . . . → Read More: Senator Feinstein Calls on California Lawmakers to Enact Real ADA Reform March 15th, 2012
Judicial Hellholes California, Florida, New York and West Virginia were home to some of the most absurdly outsized (and costly to us all) medical liability verdicts since 2010. . . . → Read More: Judicial Hellholes Spurring Costly Trend toward More Giant-Sized Medical Liability Awards Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, Medical Liability, New York, South Florida, West Virginia February 29th, 2012
ATRA’s Golden State ally, the Civil Justice Association of California, alerts us to the latest legislative skullduggery in Sacramento, where a lawmaker loyal to the state’s politically powerful personal injury bar has introduced a bill that will undo a sound state supreme court ruling last year that eliminated so-called “phantom damages” . . . → Read More: Doing Trial Lawyers’ Bidding, California Lawmaker Tries to Undo High Court Ruling against ‘Phantom Damages’ One comment - (Comments are closed) Judicial Hellholes California, Gov. Jerry Brown, Phantom Damages, Sen. Darrell Steinberg October 20th, 2011
A long awaited government report on the secretive workings of asbestos trust funds says, among other things, “the possibility exists that a claimant could file the same medical evidence and altered work histories with different trusts” and thus fraudulently seek to collect from multiple trusts. . . . → Read More: GAO Report: Claimants Could Seek to Defraud Secretive Asbestos Trusts October 7th, 2011
Mississippi’s supreme court yesterday issued a unanimous order that removes a biased trial judge from further involvement with a record-setting asbestos case . . . → Read More: State High Court Removes ‘Automatic Hellhole’ Judge from Asbestos Case in Mississippi September 27th, 2011
Since we reported the beginning of Charlie Sheen’s $100 million lawsuit against Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre, we feel obligated to report its merciful end. . . . → Read More: ‘Half-Man’ Sheen’s Lawsuit against Warner Bros., Lorre Fades to Black September 6th, 2011
Local TV new cameras recently caught a Los Angeles area serial plaintiff out for his daily hike, even though the scores of Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits he’s filed against small businesses there claim he’s disabled by “end-stage emphysema” and largely confined to a wheelchair . . . → Read More: Los Angeles Newscast Catches ADA Fraudster on Daily Hike August 19th, 2011
Brushing aside precedents from both the U.S. Supreme Court and its own state supreme court, a California appeals court has affirmed a trial court’s punitive damages award that is 16 times larger than the compensatory damages awarded in a tobacco case . . . → Read More: Punitive Damages Ruling All But Guarantees California Will Repeat As a ‘Judicial Hellhole’ Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, Philip Morris, punitive damages, San Francisco Chronicle August 16th, 2011
California’s high court is expected to render its decision soon in a key “phantom damages” case, and Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters succinctly asseses the importance of the pending decsion . . . → Read More: ‘Phantom Damages’ Case Pending in California Will Influence State’s ‘Hellhole’ Reputation Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, Dan Walters, Medical Liability, Phantom Damages, Sacramento Bee August 9th, 2011
If it’s not with phony wheelchair access claims or absurd consumer protection lawsuits, California plaintiffs lawyers also extort money from small businessmen and women by exploiting an environmental law that’s ripe for reform . . . → Read More: Trial Lawyers Plaguing California Small Businesses Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes ADA, California, Consumer lawsuit abuse, environmental lawsuits, Jim Conran |
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