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
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May 8th, 2012
 Comments are closed  Judicial Hellholes  class-action, Consumer lawsuit abuse, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 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 24th, 2012
Last week, Merck & Co. successfully defended itself against a claim involving its drug, Fosamax. This was the company’s fifth win in six such cases that have gone to trial. The cases were heard in the Atlantic County Superior Court by Judge Carol Higbee, a court that has consistently been targeted by our Judicial Hellholes report. . . . → Read More: Welcomed Signs of Fairness in Former ‘Judicial Hellhole’ 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 September 26th, 2011
American Tort Reform Association communications director Darren McKinney fired up a comment to an online UPI story he sees as too sympathetic to trial lawyers and class actions . . . → Read More: Caveat Emptor, for Crying out Loud! Comments are closed Uncategorized class-action, Consumer lawsuit abuse, Justice Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court, UPI 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 February 18th, 2011
As reported by the New York Daily News, a New Jersey woman who tried to perpetrate a coupon con on a department store has conspired with a personal injury lawyer relative of hers in Queens, N.Y., to gin up a class action because, she alleges, she’s owed 80 cents. . . . → Read More: ‘Sue Jersey’ and ‘Sue York,’ Hellholes Together January 31st, 2011
Jere Beasley, Alabama’s infamous class-action impresario and would-be Dickie Scruggs, has headed for the border. Alleging that his own law firm’s “independent” testing indicates that Taco Bell’s beef tacos include only 35% beef, Beasley is suing the fast-food chain in – you guessed it – California, the nation’s best place to have a meritless consumer class-action certified and taken seriously by a kooky judge . . . → Read More: Alabama’s Tort King Heads to the Border Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, class-action, Consumer lawsuit abuse, Jere Beasley January 28th, 2011
It’s precisely the type of lawsuit that gave California a reputation for consumer lawsuit abuse. Lawyers sued the lock manufacturer, Kwikset for deceptive advertising because products, labeled as “Made in the U.S.A.,” included components, such as screws, produced overseas. In a dissent Justice Ming W. Chin, joined by Justice Carol A. Corrigan, recognized that “[t]his cannot be what the electorate intended” in voting for a measure intended to reduce frivolous lawsuits. . . . → Read More: Screws Loosened for California Consumer Lawsuits January 21st, 2011
The District of Columbia’s highest court has rejected two claims that threatened to make the nation’s capital a magnet for consumer lawsuit abuse. The alternative, the Court recognized, “would open our courts to any person from anywhere who decides to lodge a complaint labeled as a ‘representative action’ . . . even though that person has suffered no injury-in-fact related to a District of Columbia merchant’s unlawful trade practice” . . . → Read More: No Injury? No Lawsuit, Says DC Court of Appeals December 20th, 2010
A ruling by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday shows why the state is no longer named ATRA’s #1 Judicial Hellhole and provides an encouraging sign for further improvement of the state’s civil justice climate. In White v. Wyeth, the state’s highest court recognized the basic principle that an individual who sues under a consumer protection statute must show that he or she actually relied on the allegedly deceptive advertisement or practice to recover damages. . . . → Read More: West Virginia High Court Says No Lawsuits Without Injury |
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