On June 1, 2012, a California Judge stood up to parasitic trial lawyers and ruled that CVS does not have to provide chairs for its cashiers. The decision ended a ridiculous class action lawsuit filed in 2009 by Nykeya Kilby, a former lazy CVS cashier in Chula Vista, California.
Points of LightATRA keeps the heat on California’s plaintiff-friendly, anti-business courts with another letter to the editor in today’s Wall Street Journal
Judicial HellholesAs Judicial Hellholes reporters continue to document, the once Golden State has become a Mecca for every two-bit shyster with
Judicial HellholesA recent study performed by the insurance industry says dog bite claims in 2011 cost the industry $478.9 million, a 12 percent increase from 2010. Specifically, State Farm California had 527 dog bite claims and paid more than $20.3 million as a result. This is a 31% increase in claims over 2010
Judicial HellholesRecent letters to the editor by the American Tort Reform Association have kept pressure on trial lawyer-backed opponents of tort reform, both in Sacramento, California, and Phildelphia, Pennsylvania
Judicial HellholesA just-released report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows that questionable slip-and-fall claims rose by 12% from 2010 through 2011, and not coincidentally many past and present Judicial Hellholes are where most of these bogus, bottom-feeding lawsuits are filed
Judicial HellholesOn May 8, 2012, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee defeated A.B. 1878 (Beth Gaines-R) by a clean party-line vote of 3-7. This bill would have provided businesses much needed relief from frivolous ADA lawsuits.
Judicial HellholesWilson 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 HellholesA recent California Supreme Court ruling provides the state’s employers with greater flexibility in operating their establishments. It will help to curb wage-and-hour class actions in the state, allowing many employers to “breathe a huge sigh of relief.” The Court’s decision may indicate a trend of fair rulings for California businesses.
Points of LightAccording 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 LightIn recent weeks, US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) has taken California legislators to task and urged them to address the excessive amount of “predatory” disability lawsuits that are plaguing the state.
UncategorizedJudicial 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 HellholesATRA’s Golden State ally, the Civil Justice Association of California, alerts us to the latest legislative skullduggery in Sacramento, where a lawmaker loyal to the state’s politically powerful personal injury bar has introduced a bill that will undo a sound state supreme court ruling last year that eliminated so-called “phantom damages”
Judicial HellholesA long awaited government report on the secretive workings of asbestos trust funds says, among other things, “the possibility exists that a claimant could file the same medical evidence and altered work histories with different trusts” and thus fraudulently seek to collect from multiple trusts.
UncategorizedMississippi’s supreme court yesterday issued a unanimous order that removes a biased trial judge from further involvement with a record-setting asbestos case
Points of LightSince we reported the beginning of Charlie Sheen’s $100 million lawsuit against Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre, we feel obligated to report its merciful end.
Judicial HellholesLocal TV new cameras recently caught a Los Angeles area serial plaintiff out for his daily hike, even though the scores of Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits he’s filed against small businesses there claim he’s disabled by “end-stage emphysema” and largely confined to a wheelchair
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