As the push continues to expose and punish that lowly element of the plaintiffs’ bar that lies, cheats and manipulates civil courts and abestos trust funds to maximize their profits, ethics and justice be damned, ATRA offers up links to both a recent editorial and a Pennsylvania television interview that help make the tort reformers’ case
UncategorizedIn an apparent bid to make sure California remains as the #1-ranked Judicial Hellhole for an unprecedented third year in a row, food suit shysters there have watsed no time in getting 2014 off to a familiar start, filing two meritless class actions in federal court
UncategorizedPerhaps inviting a new stampede of speculative and opportunistic litgation on the courts of the former #1 Judicial Hellhole, Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week ruled in Lance v. Wyeth that pharmaceutical companies can now be held liable for “negligent design defect” — a theory of liability not previously available to plaintiffs in the Keystone State
Judicial Hellholes, UncategorizedThe U.S. Solicitor General’s office has weighed in on a closely-watched patent case — Limelight v. Akamai – and its brief could spell trouble for patent trolls
UncategorizedThe U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear the appeal of an important patents case, and sanity recommends that it should
UncategorizedThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning published American Tort Reform Association president Tiger Joyce’s op-ed, holding up the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act as a means to discourage plaintiffs’ lawyers from promulgating fraudulent lawsuits
UncategorizedThe divorced parents of a 15-year-old Connecticut girl are suing a Massachusetts summer camp, alleging that nearly $700,000 worth of emotional distress was inflicted when their daughter was expelled after engaging in what the camp’s director deemed provocative sexual behavior with a fellow camper
UncategorizedLeading bio-tech companies have created a new website to help counteract the disinformation and propaganda that various crackpot activists, the uncompetitive organic food industry and certain shameless elements of the plaintiffs’ bar have conspired to foment in recent years
UncategorizedMichigan-based small business advocate Charles Owens’ Detroit News op-ed yesterday is a must-read for anyone concerned about the growing wave of meritless litigation stemming from the well-intentioned and largely effective Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
UncategorizedWith an op-ed in today’s edition of Politico, Congressman Don Young of Alaska describes a troubling arrangement between the Environmental Protection Agency and various environmental groups as “perhaps the most devious way in which agencies make sweeping policy changes, while keeping Congress and the American people in the dark”
UncategorizedIn a desperate effort to marshal political forces against reform of Wisconsin’s infamously lawyer-friendly “lemon law,” self-proclaimed “Lemon Law King” Vince Megna has reportedly sent a letter to auto dealerships in the state, proclaiming they’ll become the targets of newly fashioned federal lawsuits if state law makes it harder for him to go after manufacturers
UncategorizedA spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association today pointed out the fact that the national trial lawyers association and a personal-injury law firm known for aggressive advertising are both listing the same Washington, D.C., office address as theirs
UncategorizedIt’s long overdue, but a nascent movement to hold accountable and punish those who pursue fraudulent lawsuits at the expense of taxpayers, consumers and jobseekers may finally be materializing
Points of Light, UncategorizedATRA considers a recent ABA Journal story about constitutional challenges to statutory liability limits to be “largely fair,” but believes “it’s slightly weighted toward the view of plaintiffs’ lawyers and could lead a general reader to incorrect assumptions
UncategorizedThe Kentucky Supreme Court has disbarred legendary Ohio plaintiffs’ attorney Stanley Chesley, the latest in a long line of his kind who’ve been undone by greed
UncategorizedIn an effort to protect from speculative lawsuits the thousands of jobs provided by commercial aircraft maker Airbus and its parts suppliers, the Alabama House this week is expected to pass a bill that has already cleared the Senate, limiting product liability years after manufacture
Points of Light, UncategorizedPhiladelphia’s Court of Common Pleas had 70 percent fewer mass-tort case filings in 2012 than in 2011, but out-of-state plaintiffs continued to predominate
Points of Light, UncategorizedThe New Jersey man who has reportedly sued Subway appears in a New York Post photo to need another inch of bread like he needs a hole in the head
UncategorizedShortly before the New Year, the Illinois Supreme Court announced a long-awaited decision that may appropriately serve to limit forum shopping somewhat in a state full of Judicial Hellholes notorious for the practice
Judicial Hellholes, UncategorizedThe National Federation of Independent Business’s executive director in Pennsylvania, Kevin Shivers, made the case for venue reform and additional progress in improving the civil justice system during a recent television appearance on Comcast’s “Newsmakers” program, now airing throughout the Keystone State
UncategorizedWith a sizeable majority of Americans concerned that an unbalanced civil justice system and excessive liability hurt economic growth, job
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