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We're Number 6! We're Number 6!

By Bruce Nye

pspan style=font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;#0160;#0160;#0160; In 2007, when The a href=http://www.atra.org/ target=_blankAmerican Tort Reform Association/a published it#39;s a href=http://www.atra.org/reports/hellholes/2007/ target=_blanklast report on Judicial Hellholes/a, I sarcastically la href=http://www.calbizlit.com/cal_biz_lit/2007/12/california----n.html target=_blankamented that California didn#39;t even make the cut/a (although Los a href=http://www.calbizlit.com/.a/6a00d83451e4e569e201053678d83e970b-pi style=float: right;img alt=ATRA2008 border=0 class=at-xid-6a00d83451e4e569e201053678d83e970b src=http://www.calbizlit.com/.a/6a00d83451e4e569e201053678d83e970b-800wi style=margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; title=ATRA2008 //a Angeles Superior Court made the quot;watch list.quot;)/span/ppspan style=font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;#0160;#0160;#0160; Well, worry no more.#0160; a href=http://www.atra.org/reports/hellholes/ target=_blankThe new list is out/a, and Los Angeles is now number 6, quot;joining perennials in West Virginia, Florida and Illinois, along with recent newcomers in Nevada and New Jersey.quot;#0160; Says ATRA:/span/pdiv style=margin-left: 40px;div style=margin-left: 40px;span style=font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;The county long known as quot;the bankquot; has remained one of the most desirable places in the nation to file lawsuits. Los Angeles this year produced a startling number of large asbestos awards. And in one recent string of lawsuits stemming from a practical joke, just about everyone walked away with a payment. /spanbr //divspan style=font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;/span/divpspan style=font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;br /#0160;#0160;#0160; The Court, however, a href=http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11240824 target=_blankbegs to differ/a:/span/pdiv style=margin-left: 80px;br /p style=font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;Los Angeles Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini said the report is based on an quot;entirely subjective series of observations.quot; /pp style=font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;quot;We receive 1 million new nontraffic filings per year,quot; he said. quot;In a court with that caseload, it#39;s inevitable some people will be unhappy with the results of their litigation.quot; /p/divp style=font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;#0160;#0160;#0160; While no other California courts make the list, Orange County, once considered among the most conservative counties in the state, is now cited as a quot;court to watch.quot;#0160; Apparently, this is based on the filing of a number of Botox cases and the ousting of a judge for fibbing about some business travel./pdiv style=margin-left: 80px;br //divdiv style=margin-left: 40px;br //div

Full post as published by CalBizLit on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).