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.
Judicial HellholesFirst 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.
Judicial Hellholes, Points of LightWilson 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
Judicial HellholesLos 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
Judicial HellholesIf 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
Judicial HellholesLike 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”
Judicial HellholesThe joke was on low-brow bigmouth Howard Stern Monday when a New York judge dismissed his outrageously ungrateful lawsuit against Sirius XM Radio
Judicial HellholesAccording 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
Judicial HellholesIn 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
Judicial Hellholes, Points of LightJohn 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.
Judicial HellholesThis 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.
Judicial Hellholes, UncategorizedComing 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
Judicial Hellholes, Points of LightATRA 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
Judicial HellholesOn 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
Judicial HellholesAn excellent op-ed by an ATRA ally in New Jersey encourages small business owners to get involved in politics and policy
Judicial HellholesVideo 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
Judicial HellholesJudicial 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.
Judicial HellholesMadison County’s controversial asbestos litigation system is once again under fire and causing a stir. Recently, presiding Judge Clarence Harrison
Judicial HellholesA 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”
Judicial HellholesThis week, in yet another bad decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the collateral source rule applies to underinsured motorists.
Judicial HellholesHaving read what he felt was a misleading campaign email sent yesterday by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, ATRA’s communications director today emailed the AG, urging him to be more “forthright” in debating the merits of the so-called Sunshine Bill, recently passed in the Mississippi House
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