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01.08.2013

Case Gives SCOTUS Chance to Rein in Class-Action Extortionists in Once and Future Judicial Hellhole

Miscarriages of civil justice in plaintiff-friendly Miller County, Arkansas are nothing new (see the 2006 Judicial Hellholes report, p. 22), but now they’re the makings of an important case on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court — a case that invites the justices to rein in once and for all the class-action extortionists that continue to thrive, despite the best intentions of a 2005 federal reform law.

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Since its inception in 2002, the American Tort Reform Foundation’s Judicial Hellholes® program has documented in annually published reports various abuses in the civil justice system, focusing on jurisdictions where courts are radically out of balance.

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