Voters in a key Louisiana jurisdiction have just informed rapacious plaintiffs’ lawyers that Bayou State citizens are tired of living in a “judicial hellhole.”
As reported here at the Washington Examiner on Tuesday, Louisiana was just listed as one of the top 5 official “Judicial Hellholes” in the whole country by the American Tort Reform Association, a business-backed group known for fighting against what it calls “lawsuit abuse.” One of the major examples of absurd lawsuits – but one supposedly to the benefit of, and popular among Louisiana citizens – is a series of court actions by lawyers acting for Louisiana government entities. The suits, sold to the public as a miracle cure for state budget woes, aimed to force “Big Oil” to pay retroactively for coastal erosion that largely wasn’t the oil companies’ fault.
