Evidence of Trial Lawyer Corruption Comes to Light in South Carolina
On Sunday, February 11, 2018, the Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina reported new email evidence suggesting misconduct regarding
Judicial HellholesAnother State High Court Slaps Down AG's 'Off-Label' Lawsuit against Maker of 'Miracle' Drug
The Arkansas Supreme Court this week unanimously reversed a lower court’s $1.2 billion verdict won previously in an off-labeling lawsuit waged by the state’s attorney general against the maker of widely used and effective antipsychotic medication
Points of LightPay-to-Play Action Between Nevada AG, Trial Lawyer Patrons Spotlighted by WSJ Editorial
Updating the pay-to-play action that Nevada’s attorney general is running with some out-of-state plaintiffs’ lawyers, Wall Street Journal editorial writers today urge the state’s high court to end it
Judicial HellholesATRA Backs ‘Transparency’ Policies of WV’s New AG
In an op-ed published today by the State Journal in West Virginia, ATRA president Tiger Joyce offered support for the state’s new attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, and his proposed transparency policies aimed at providing the public with more information about the hiring of outside counsel
Judicial HellholesBreaking Bad on the Bayou: Supreme Court and Attorney General Giving Louisiana a Bad Name
Despite ongoing legislative reform efforts, Louisiana seems headed for a Judicial Hellholes ranking this year thanks to a recently horrendous state supreme court decision and a continuing pay-to-play shakedown racket known as the “Buddy System”
Judicial HellholesLouisiana AG’s ‘Pay-to-Play’ Party Rolls on in 2013
The all too cozy relationships between Louisiana’s attorney general and various personal injury lawyers and law firms that were criticized in the latest Judicial Hellholes report appear to be continuing in the New Year
Judicial HellholesLouisiana Appeals Court Upholds Another Pay-to-Play Verdict, AG’s Political Patrons Get Richer
A Louisiana appeals court has upheld a $258 million jury verdict reached in a 2010 pharmaceutical case and criticized in that year’s Judicial Hellholes report for its “disproportionate enormity”
Judicial HellholesDiabetes Drug Maker Fights Pay-to-Play in Once-and-Future Judicial Hellhole
Standing up to Louisiana’s attorney general and his personal injury lawyer pals, the maker of a widely prescribed treatment for Type 2
Judicial HellholesAnother Loss for Mississippi AG Jim Hood
Just days after a related good-government reform bill he fought tooth-and-nail was signed into law, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood got more bad news in the form of a state supreme court decision
Judicial HellholesBack to His Old Pay-to-Play Ways? Mississippi AG Angers Lawmakers with Latest Outside Counsel Hire
After recently asking his political supporters to help him block pending state legislation that would cramp his pay-to-play style, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has stepped in it real good with his latest closed-door hiring of outside counsel, according to Magnolia State media folk
UncategorizedATRA Urges Mississippi AG to Debate ‘Sunshine Bill’ Honestly
Having 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
Judicial HellholesManhattan Institute Allies Keep Heat on Pay-to-Play Attorneys General
ATRA’s allies at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy have published their latest edition of Trial Lawyers, Inc., this time examining the increasingly troubling relationships between many state attorneys general and their personal injury lawyer political patrons
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