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
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March 30th, 2012
 Comments are closed  Judicial Hellholes, Points of Light  Asbestos Claims, Judge Clarence Harrison, Madison County, mesothelioma, reservation docket 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 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? March 12th, 2012
Madison County’s controversial asbestos litigation system is once again under fire and causing a stir. Recently, presiding Judge Clarence Harrison of Madison County, Illinois, denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss under the doctrine of forum non conveniens regarding a Texas resident who is alleging asbestos exposure in West Virginia and has no connection to Illinois. In the case of Woody v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation, the Plaintiff and Decedent resided in Texas and the asbestos exposure occurred in West Virginia and Korea. The Defendants’ residences are scattered and the Defendants’ attorneys, both parties’ experts, and Plaintiff’s medical personnel involved in the cases all reside in West Virginia. Judge . . . → Read More: Madison County’s Controversial Asbestos Litigation System Strikes Again March 8th, 2012
A recent $1.25 million plaintiffs verdict in a railway crossing accident case tried in Madison County, Illinois has thankfully been reversed and remanded, but the judge’s conduct of the original trial speaks volumes about why the jurisdiction is a perennial Judicial Hellhole, and why plaintiffs from across the country hurry to board the “Madison County Express” . . . → Read More: More Evidence that Madison County Is a Judicial Hellhole Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes Judge Andy Matoesian, Madison County, railway crossings, Webb v. Union Pacific February 28th, 2012
Though judges in the infamous Judicial Hellhole of Madison County, Illinois have allowed supporters of the troubled organic farming industry to perpetuate a meritless class action against the makers of a safe and widely used weed killer for eight long years, a no-nonsense federal judge in New York was not as patient . . . → Read More: Food Eaters 1, Uncompetitive Organics Industry 0 Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes, Points of Light atrazine, Madison County, Monsanto, New York, patents February 17th, 2012
ATRA previously exposed the apparently hypocritical connections between plaintiffs’ lawyers, activists at an enviro-radical website, and organic farming advocates who share an interest in a meritless and costly lawsuit dragging on since 2004 in perennial judicial hellhole Madison County, Illinois. Now ATRA and an ally have published the first in a series of op-eds to offer developing details . . . → Read More: Turning Up the Heat on Madison County’s Meritless Atrazine Lawsuit February 2nd, 2012
The Center for Media and Democracy issued a non-denial denial that its WikiLeaks-wannabe website, SourceWatch.org, had posted and then scrambled to take down a deposition transcript and previously unsealed but not yet public court documents connected to a major class action playing out in Madison County, Illinois . . . → Read More: Organics Industry Advocate Issues ‘Non-Denial Denial’ about Its Efforts to Influence Justice in Madison County Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes atrazine, Center for Media and Democracy, Madison County, SourceWatch, Syngenta, Tillery January 31st, 2012
Caught in the act by Judicial Hellholes reporters late last week, WikiLeaks wannbe “SourceWatch.org” is now scambling to pull down previoulsy posted court documents, particularly the ones that suggest a direct link between it and the plaintiffs’ attorneys in a Madison County class action against the makers of a safe and widely used weed killer. . . . → Read More: ‘SourceWatch’ Exposed: Website Backed by Organic Food Industry Scrambles to Take down Court Documents after Being Caught in the Act Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes atrazine, Center for Media and Democracy, class-action, Madison County, SourceWatch.org January 27th, 2012
We’ll post more about this soon, but sources tell Judicial Hellholes reporters that a would-be WikiLeaks-like website is poised to post previously unsealed, proprietary documents provided during discovery by Syngenta, the defendant in a long-running, if meritless, class action in Madison County, Illinois. Continue reading ‘Organic’ Advocates Seek to Influence Madison County Atrazine Case January 19th, 2012
Just before the latest Judicial Hellholes® report was released last December 15, Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder was barred by Chief Judge Ann Callis from presiding over the the nation’s largest asbestos docket in the wake of a campaign contributions scandal. Continue reading Madison County Judge Removed from Asbestos Docket May 6th, 2011
No one will be surprised to learn that four states notorious for their Judicial Hellholes and Watch List jurisdictions — California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey — have been ranked by corporate CEOs as the worst in the nation for doing business . . . → Read More: Four ‘Judicial Hellholes’ States Ranked as Worst for Business Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, class-action, Cook County, Illinois, Madison County, McLean County, New Jersey, New York, St. Clair County April 25th, 2011
A thin-skinned Madison County judge has been baited by a crafty plaintiffs’ lawyer into ordering into evidence irrelevant but plaintiff-friendly “evidence” in an important Illinois environmental case, further cementing the rural county’s reputation among the least fair jurisdictions in the nation . . . → Read More: Ruling by Thin-Skinned Judge Furthers Madison County’s Reputation As a ‘Judicial Hellhole’ December 22nd, 2010
“Seven businesses that constantly defend asbestos suits in Madison County have urged Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder to curtail the county’s role as a litigation magnet,” according to The Madison Record today. Though the judiciary deserves credit for significantly improving the county’s civil justice system since Madison County, Illinois was named the report’s first #1 Judicial Hellhole, it remains on the Watch List due to concerns that it is backsliding. In 2006, asbestos cases had waned to 325 after waxing to a high of about 950 in 2003. In 2009, however, the number of such filings surged back up to 814. According to the proposal filed with Judge Crowder, lawyers have filed 738 . . . → Read More: Reforms Sought in Madison County Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes Asbestos Claims, Illinois, Madison County, Unbalanced Court Procedures, Watch List |
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