As we told you last December, California is the nation’s number one Judicial Hellhole. You might wonder – what factors make California’s legal climate so bad? Well, a lot.

For one, trial lawyers have been exploiting California’s Proposition 65, which requires cancer warning labels to be posted at businesses. If signs aren’t properly posted, opportunist lawyers demand out of court settlements without giving business owners a chance to comply. Similarly, California trial lawyers have abused the Americans with Disabilities Act, suing businesses for extremely minor violations.

Have you heard about the latest high profile class action lawsuit? On February 26, two California residents and their attorneys decided to sue Anheuser-Busch, claiming that the company waters down its beers, leaving their actual alcohol content below the advertised five percent. The lawsuit targets brands like Budweiser, Michelob and Natural Ice.

Editor’s Note: Project Lawsuit Abuse regularly highlights lawsuit abuse news from across the country. Today, Tom Scott, Executive Director of California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, contributed a guest post for Project Lawsuit Abuse.

2013 could have been the year that our nation turned over a new leaf and stopped the mindless class action lawsuits that have plagued businesses in the United States for years. Unfortunately, it is already too late.

Editor’s Note: Project Lawsuit Abuse regularly highlights lawsuit abuse news from across the country. Today, Travis Akin, Executive Director of Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch, contributed a guest post for Project Lawsuit Abuse.

Subway may soon have to change its slogan from “Eat Fresh” to “Sue Fresh.”

Lawsuits claiming Subway’s famous “footlong” sandwiches are not always a whole foot long have been filed in New Jersey and Chicago. The Chicago lawsuit alleges a “pattern of fraudulent, deceptive and otherwise improper advertising, sales and marketing practices.”

Editor’s Note: Project Lawsuit Abuse regularly highlights lawsuit abuse news from across the country. Today, Tom Scott, Executive Director of California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, contributed a guest post for Project Lawsuit Abuse.

I thought long and hard about whether I should write you. I have known you for a long time and have great respect for the work you do, but I have spent a large part of my life fighting lawsuit abuse and for legal reform.

Editor’s Note: Project Lawsuit Abuse regularly highlights lawsuit abuse news from across the country. Today’s blog post comes to us from Darren McKinney, Director of Communications at The American Tort Reform Association, the only national organization dedicated exclusively to tort and liability reform through public education and the enactment of legislation.

California… a state for palm trees, fun beaches, tan people, and Judicial Hellholes?

In December, the American Tort Reform Association released its Judicial Hellholes report, our annual compilation of inequities within and abuse of the civil justice system.  Although there were a lot of options to choose from, California easily ranked as the #1 Judicial Hellhole for 2012/2013.

Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet recently. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country.

Class actions, or lawsuits in which lawyers sue on behalf of a large group of people, are a staple of the American legal system. It seems that hardly a day passes without news of a new class action lawsuit. For instance, did you hear about the class action brought against Instagram last week?

Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet recently. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country.

It’s official: Madison County ranked one of nation’s worst ‘Judicial Hellholes’

A lot of factors make California a place where people like to live and visit: movie stars, beautiful beaches, and unbelievably pleasant weather. But one issue that doesn’t make the state very appealing? Its legal climate. Today, the American Tort Reform Association released its annual survey of lawsuit abuse throughout the country, officially designating California the nation’s number one “Judicial Hellhole.”

Have you ever decided you no longer wanted to receive text message alerts from a company or organization? If so, I’ll bet you did what most folks would do and hit “unsubscribe.” Jerry Wojcik, however, had a different response: he decided to sue.

Project Lawsuit Abuse Newsmakers
Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet recently. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country.