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Missouri Coalition Backs Bill, Amendment To Undo Bad High Court Decision

The Missouri State Medical Association has launched a new website to boost the efforts of the Missouri Tort Reform Coalition, an alliance of medical groups and tort reform advocates supporting both legislation and a proposed state constitutional amendment to reverse a 2012 Missouri Supreme Court decision that struck down a reasonable statutory limit on awards for noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits

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St. Louis

Judges in St. Louis seem to have embraced their reputation for skirting both state law and U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

St. Louis

While the judges in St. Louis continued to ignore both state law and U.S. Supreme Court precedent and allowed junk

New York

New York’s race to the bottom (or the top) of the Judicial Hellholes® list continued in 2021, as the state’s

City of St. Louis

A perennial Judicial Hellhole®, St. Louis once again finds itself on the list; however, made some important progress through legislative

California

Everlasting Judicial Hellholes: A Long, Hot 20 Years Jurisdictions in California were named Judicial Hellholes® a total of 15 years,

New York

Everlasting Judicial Hellholes: A Long, Hot 20 Years Jurisdictions in New York were named Judicial Hellholes® a total of 11

South Florida

Everlasting Judicial Hellholes: A Long, Hot 20 Years Jurisdictions in Florida were named Judicial Hellholes® a total of 16 years,

Pennsylvania

Everlasting Judicial Hellholes: A Long, Hot 20 Years Jurisdictions in Pennsylvania were named Judicial Hellholes® a total of eight years,

St. Louis

Everlasting Judicial Hellholes: A Long, Hot 20 Years Jurisdictions in Missouri were named Judicial Hellholes® a total of nine years,

New York City Asbestos Litigation

In addition to graduating from law school, the justices presiding over New York City’s Asbestos Litigation (NYCAL) court also seem

California

It takes a civil justice system shock analogous to San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake to dislodge California from its typically ignominious

The City of St. Louis

As regular readers of this report know, it hasn’t been easy in recent years to knock incorrigibly litigious and civil

2019 Judicial Hellhole Report

Every year we shine a light on the worst of the worst. Since its inception in 2002, the American Tort Reform Foundation’s Judicial Hellholes® program has documented in annually published reports various abuses within the civil justice system, focusing primarily on jurisdictions where courts have been radically out of balance.

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