Deploying at times over-the-top rhetoric and a healthy dose of sarcasm, the American Tort Reform Association Thursday issued its annual report on what it calls the country’s “judicial hellholes,” denouncing allegedly overly plaintiff-friendly conditions in jurisdictions of every size from coast to coast.
The tort reform group aimed its ire at the entirety of the nation’s largest state, California as well as the more modestly-sized jurisdictions of Madison and St. Clair counties in Illinois, perennial targets of the report despite their population sizes of less than 300,000 each.
