The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) today recognized the American Tort Reform Association’s “Judicial Hellholes” program for its effectiveness in spotlighting problems in notoriously unfair civil court jurisdictions
UncategorizedA grassroots group calling itself Citizens for Judicial Integrity (CFJI) is now actively working to unseat four judges in Madison County, Illinois, a jurisdiction cited almost annually as a Judicial Hellhole
UncategorizedJoining cookie-cutter lawsuits in California, a new nationwide class action filed in Minnesota names two plaintiffs — one from New York, the other from New Jersey — to represent millions of presumptive imbeciles who want our courts to believe they are incapable of reading and understanding federally mandated nutrition labels on boxes of granola bars
UncategorizedAs both major political parties prepare for their national conventions, the American Tort Reform Association has released a newly commissioned national survey indicating that strong majorities of registered voters across the political spectrum believe lawsuit abuse hurts economic growth, job creation and U.S. competitiveness
UncategorizedAn American Tort Reform Association spokesman and D.C. resident today called a local police captain’s multimillion dollar lawsuit against the District of Columbia and several city officials a “disgraceful insult to every Washington taxpayer”
UncategorizedAfter being sued into bankruptcy by opportunistic personal injury lawyers, an Oklahoma small business shut it doors today, leaving 117 employees without jobs
UncategorizedTwo women who are either lying, dimwitted or both, claim in the latest preposterous consumer class action in California that they’ve been misled by the brand name and promotional labeling of a popular granola bar
UncategorizedTwo pathetic parents have sued their area Little League, seeking to keep its all-star team off the field, because their 12-year-old son didn’t make the cut
UncategorizedAn astonishingly ungrateful New Jersey woman, her despicable husband and their loathsome attorney are suing the police who saved her life
Judicial Hellholes, UncategorizedEd Rendell’s hypocritical new book predictably ignores the major role that his parasitic personal injury lawyer pals have played in the “wussification” of America
UncategorizedThe House Natural Resources Committee today reports that the federal government has defended more than 570 Endangered Species Act (ESA)-related lawsuits costing U.S. taxpayers more than $15 million in attorney fees – in just the past four years
UncategorizedThe Wall Street Journal today editorializes about the economic drag that so-called “legacy lawsuits” have imposed on Louisiana’s economy in recent years while also impeding overall national energy production
UncategorizedFacebook’s initial public offering of (plainly overvalued) stock had barely concluded before securities sharks swam to the courthouses, claiming their just-fell-off-the-turnip-truck clients had been hoodiewinked
UncategorizedIn a recent “Letter to the Editor” in the Washington Post, David Goldberg, a divorce lawyer out of Gaitherburg, Md, gave Washington Nationals’ outfielder Bryce Harper some ridiculous advice- sue Philadelphia Phillies’ pitcher Cole Hamels for hitting him with a pitched ball.
UncategorizedReacting to recent endorsements of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as a possible vice presidential running-mate for Mitt Romney, ATRA director of communications Darren McKinney suggested, in a Daily Caller column published yesterday, that Jindal’s longstanding ties to the personal injury bar may pose an insurmountable hurdle if the governor wants to pursue politics on the national stage
UncategorizedMedical liability reforms undertaken in Pennsylvania last decade have had the intended effect of reducing the number of meritless lawsuits, particularly in Philadelphia, and broader progress in other areas of tort law now seems possible, too
UncategorizedBoth the energy companies targeted by “legacy” lawsuits and the lawyers and landowners who profit from them believe that Louisiana lawmakers will have to compromise if they’re to craft meaningful reform legislation. But neither side expects much leadership from Gov. Bobby Jindal (R).
UncategorizedThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterday that the U.S. in 2011 had the most number of reported measles cases in 15 years, and for this we can blame the anti-vaccine hysteria generated by Hollywood celebvocates and self-serving personal injury lawyers
UncategorizedThe American Bar Association is disputing the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s assertion that it has the authroity to view the internal communications between the entities it regulates and those entities’ attorneys
UncategorizedAs John Edwards prepares to face federal charges that he criminally violated campaign finance laws in 2008, some in the media, to whom the former trial lawyer lied repeatedly, nonetheless seem determined, incredibly enough, to potray the defendant sympathetically
UncategorizedThis past week, ATRA, in conjunction with the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Alliance for Civil Justice and the US Chamber of Commerce, filed an amicus brief in the case of Cullen v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance. The Brief urges the Ohio State Supreme Court to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeals and hold that the trial court was correct to consider the factual and legal merits of the case when determining whether or not to certify the class under Rule 23.
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