Striking a blow for common sense and contractual arbitration clauses, the California Supreme Court has ruled that a homeowners association must take its allegations of contruction defects against the developer to an arbitrator
Points of LightOn August 9, 2012, in what was a sharply divided decision, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that makers of respirators designed to prevent asbestos exposure can be held liable for failing to warn of the contaminant’s risks. This decision unfairly opens up safety product manufacturers to more lawsuits over asbestos-related injuries.
Judicial HellholesAn American Tort Reform Association spokesman and D.C. resident today called a local police captain’s multimillion dollar lawsuit against the District of Columbia and several city officials a “disgraceful insult to every Washington taxpayer”
UncategorizedAn aging and apparently delusional Italian theater director has made the costly mistake of believing a lithe young dancer had looked past his ear and nostril hair, bad breath, and receding gums and hairline to fall in love with the virile and artistic genius (read: sugar daddy) that he has always believed himself to be
Judicial HellholesCiting a report yesterday by the Blog of LegalTimes (BLT), the American Tort Reform Association today questioned the “shameless” slip-and-fall lawsuit that a National Symphony Orchestra musician has filed against two airlines
Judicial HellholesReacting to the Missouri Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision yesterday to strike down a legislated limit of $350,000 for pain and suffering awards in medical liability lawsuits, ATRA today issued a news release, saying the court’s “activist majority has sided with personal injury lawyers over doctors and hospitals”
Judicial HellholesAfter being sued into bankruptcy by opportunistic personal injury lawyers, an Oklahoma small business shut it doors today, leaving 117 employees without jobs
UncategorizedWhen New York Daily News columnist Bill Hammond wrote two weeks ago that the shrinking Empire State’s taxpayers would pay hundres of millions, maybe more than a billion dollars, more to renovate the Tappan Zee Bridge than they’d have to if it weren’t for the so-called “scaffold law,” the labor unions and trial lawyers let him have it
Judicial HellholesTwo women who are either lying, dimwitted or both, claim in the latest preposterous consumer class action in California that they’ve been misled by the brand name and promotional labeling of a popular granola bar
UncategorizedNew Hampshire lawmakers have forced into law an innovative “early offer” medical liability reform that some think may be adopted by other states
Points of LightAs reported this week by the Wall Street Journal, Blitz USA- the nation’s No. 1 consumer gasoline-can producer, based in Miami, Oklahoma, has filed for bankruptcy due to an abusive attack of frivolous lawsuits led by the trial bar.
Judicial HellholesAn Oregon mother is seeking more than $9 million in a lawsuit targeting pop idol Justin Bieber, a concert promoter, and an arena owner, claiming she suffered significant and permanent hearing loss as a result of tweeny-bopper screams during a 2010 concert
Judicial HellholesA Long Island woman who willingly engaged in a seven-month love affair with a Nassau County policeman — mostly while he was on duty — now intends to sue the county for not better supervising and keeping its employee out of her, er, bed
Judicial HellholesThe American Tort Reform Association has submitted a “friend of the court” brief to Maryland’s highest court, urging it to uphold its own precedent as well as the long expressed will of the state legislature and 165 years of settled law with respect to the doctrine of contributory negligence
Points of LightThis week, a wave of frivolous employment wage disputes has swept across the country. In just the last year roughly 7,000 lawsuits have been filed in federal court. Lawsuits alleging wage and hour violations have risen 400 percent over the last 11 years.
Judicial HellholesCalifornia lawmakers beholden to the personal injury bar have moved a bill “through the Senate as virtually an empty shell to be filled in later with language that would completely or partially overturn a 2011 state Supreme Court decision”
Judicial HellholesThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has appropriately overturned a lower court that had ruled in favor of disability-access radicals who sought to force all taxis in New York City to become wheelchair accessible
Judicial Hellholes, Points of LightTwo pathetic parents have sued their area Little League, seeking to keep its all-star team off the field, because their 12-year-old son didn’t make the cut
UncategorizedWho is New Jersey’s most despicable woman? Is it the one suing an 11-year-old Little Leaguer for injuries allegedly sustained when his errant bullpen toss struck her in the face? Or is it the one suing local police for $5 million, even though a quick-thinking officer saved her life after she’d been taken hostage by a knife-wielding criminal?
Judicial HellholesCalifornia Small business owners are continuing to feel as though they have a target on their back when it comes to ADA litigation, but relief could be in sight.
Judicial HellholesAn astonishingly ungrateful New Jersey woman, her despicable husband and their loathsome attorney are suing the police who saved her life
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