American Tort Reform Foundation Releases 2014-2015 “Judicial Hellholes” Report
Posted on Dec 16, 2014 in Litigation, Product Liability | Comments Off on American Tort Reform Foundation Releases 2014-2015 “Judicial Hellholes” Report
This afternoon, the American Tort Reform Foundation published its annual listing of “Judicial Hellholes.” The Foundation describes these venues as “places where judges in civil cases systematically apply laws and court procedures in an unfair and unbalanced manner, generally to the disadvantage of defendants.”
The organization’s 2014-2015 list includes the following:
- #1 New York City Asbestos Litigation
- #2 California
- #3 West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
- #4 Florida Supreme Court
- #5 Madison County, Illinois
- #6 Missouri Supreme Court
- #7 Louisiana
The organization placed the following venues on its watch list:
- Atlantic County, New Jersey
- Mississippi Delta
- Montana
- Nevada
- Newport News, Virginia
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
