Deny as they might that Philadelphia’s civil courts have earned their #1-ranking among Judicial Hellholes for the last two years, it appears judges there have nonetheless undertaken some potentially meaningful reforms.
Judicial Hellholes, Points of LightMississippi’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 LightThe latest news out of once-and-future judicial hellhole New York, aka “Sue York,” can be described as good, bad and ugly
Judicial Hellholes, Points of LightA new study shows that meritless medical malpractice litigation in Mississippi has been reined in considerably by 2003 tort reforms, including the limiting of pain and suffering awards.
Points of LightFollowing similar action by their Senate colleagues earlier this month, members of the North Carolina House have voted bipartisanly to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of important medical liability reform legislation
Points of LightGov. Tom Corbett today signed the “Fair Share Act,” legislation that heralds a new day for a state’s often exploited and anticompetitive civil justice system
Points of LightA three-judge panel of Wisconsin’s District III Court of Appeals recently upheld a circuit court’s dismissal of a claim for medical monitoring damages
Points of LightWest Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals yesterday reaffirmed the constitutionality of the state’s reasonable limit on inherently subjective awards for pain and suffering in medical liability lawsuits.
Points of LightBoth the South Carolina House and Senate have now passed a major tort reform package, and the governor is expected to sign the legislation into law soon.
Points of LightUltimately ignoring the down-home country homilies of actor and former senator turned trial lawyer lobbyist Fred Thompson, the Tennessee legislature passed a major bipartisan tort reform bill last week
Points of LightIn light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC , Georgia’s highest court has put itself into contention for a “Points of Light” citation by vacating an earlier ruling that favored parents of autistic children over makers of childhood vaccines.
Points of LightFollowing a favorable House vote earlier this week, the Tennessee Senate yesterday passed the Tennessee Civil Justice Act of 2011. The legislation is backed by Governor Bill Haslam, and he is expected to sign it into law soon
Points of LightQuin Hillyer’s latest commentary offers still more thoughtful support for passage of the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act, now pending in Congress
Points of LightWith the House Energy and Commerce Committee poised to begin marking up H.R. 5, the “Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011,” the American Tort Reform Association has issued a paper its president says “makes a clear case that the legislation passes constitutional muster”
Points of LightThe Florida legislature today passed an important tort reform bill that will empower jurors to hear all of the relevant facts in car accident cases where negligence on the part of driver is alleged.
Points of LightAmerican Tort Reform Association general counsel Victor Schwartz recently discussed the virtues of the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act, now pending in Congress, with the National Federation of Independent Business, the nation’s leading small business advocate
Points of LightIn a year when many statehouses are lining up in favor of economic growth and against parasitic personal injury lawyers, Oklahoma lawmakers have sent to the governor a bill comprising reasonable limits on awards for noneconomic damages in civil lawsuits
Points of LightAs home to the reigning #1 Judicial Hellhole of Philadephia, Pennsylvania is long overdue for substantive tort reforms. Poised to spark a few Points of Light this legislative session, state lawmakers in Harrisburg are being urged by the business community and many in the media to modernize liability law by replacing the current and inherently unfair “joint and several” standard with one of “proportional” liability
Points of LightATRA general counsel Victor Schwartz will testify in support of the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (LARA) during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Friday morning, March 11.
Points of LightThough his ruling will likely be appealed by plaintiffs’ lawyers or their allies at the Department of Justice, U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster in Ohio has ruled unconstitutional the so-called false marking law which has recently been exploited in a new wave of lawsuits that could bankrupt many consumer product manufacturers and kill countless jobs.
Points of LightThe District of Columbia’s highest court has rejected two claims that threatened to make the nation’s capital a magnet for consumer lawsuit abuse. The alternative, the Court recognized, “would open our courts to any person from anywhere who decides to lodge a complaint labeled as a ‘representative action’ . . . even though that person has suffered no injury-in-fact related to a District of Columbia merchant’s unlawful trade practice”
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