Your daily ration of civil justice rationing
The nation’s largest state is being watched closely as it tackles on of theĀ largest class-action issues: arbitration. In recent years, large companiesĀ have been able to shield themselves from a variety of lawsuits by havingĀ customers and vendors agree to… Read More
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that civil suits are piling up in the nation’s federal courts, leading to multiple-year delays in cases involving civil rights, personal injury and disputes over Social Security benefits. The Journal’s Joe Palazzolo… Read More
The Wall Street Journal is taking notice of momentum for a “civil Gideon” approach to lawsuits involving life-changing decisions, like foreclosure or family custody. The WSJ reports that the newly approved state budget “… allocated $85 million for… Read More
An interesting report out of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the “front office of the federal judiciary,” has named which national trial courts cut through their caseload the most efficiently, naming the U.S. District Court for… Read More
The asbestos litigation industry is buzzing over how the arrest of a major New York politician might ā or might not ā create a storyline for other high-volume “magnet” communities, says Courts Monitor Publisher Sara Warner in a… Read More
