The American Tort Reform Foundation today released its annual Judicial Hellholes report, naming some of the nation’s “most unfair civil court jurisdictions,” including perennial “Hellholes” West Virginia, South Florida and Cook County, Illinois; relative newcomers Clark County, Nevada, and Atlantic County, New Jersey; as well as Los Angeles County, California, and Alabama’s Macon and Montgomery counties, which are returning to the unwanted spotlight after respective absences.
The report also cites several “Watch List” jurisdictions that are on the cusp – “they may fall into the Hellholes abyss or rise to the promise of Equal Justice Under Law” – in the Rio Grande Valley and Gulf Coast of Texas; the once notorious Madison County, Illinois; Baltimore, Maryland; St. Louis (the City of), and St. Louis and Jackson counties, Missouri. Also noted less severely as “other areas to watch” were Orange County, California; St. Clair County, Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin; Seattle, Washington; New Orleans, Louisiana; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the states of Minnesota and Oklahoma.
Direct to 2008/2009 Full Text Report (64 pages; PDF)
See Also: Reports from 2002-2007 available at the top of this page.
Source: America Tort Reform Association
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