ATRA: Big Business of California’s Lawsuit Industry Costing Golden State Jobs

The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) on Thursday applauded the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy for exposing how plaintiffs’ lawyers are reportedly driving businesses and jobs from California.

Released by the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy, “Trial
Lawyers Inc.: California” portrays the state’s lawsuit industry as a “corporation” run by lawyers who have exploited the civil justice system at the expense of California citizens and businesses.

“California citizens should be outraged to learn that they are losing jobs and affordable housing on account of a handful of greedy plaintiffs’ lawyers who have exploited the state’s civil justice system,” said ATRA President Sherman Joyce.

The report highlights how a flood of “construction defect” litigation has
resulted in limited, affordable housing. In addition, 40% of California
companies reportedly plan to move jobs out of state and 50% have policies to halt employment growth due to the labor lawsuit epidemic.

ATRA commented that California courts have made the list of “Judicial Hellholes” for three years in a row. ATRA added the abuses in those courts contribute to California’s economic hardship that is clearly spelled out in Trial Lawyers Inc.: California.

Judicial Hellholes are state trial court jurisdictions where ATRA believes that impartial justice is unavailable. Personal injury lawyers seek out these jurisdictions and file cases there because they know they will receive a large reward, a favorable precedent, or both.

Trial Lawyers Inc.: California is available at http://www.triallawyersinc.com/. Judicial Hellholes is available at http://www.atra.org/

Latest Comments

• July 24, 2006 at 7:45 am

  will says:

  Whoever wrote this -- Arrogance and greed of the contractors, who tell you \"I got more money than you. Go ahead and sue. I\'ll just run you out of money!\" -- must not realiz... read more
• April 28, 2005 at 2:47 am

  esq2002 says:

  So, all the people who can't afford to buy an expensive home don't deserve to be homeowners at all. They get to live in cheap, drafty, rat-infested apartment complexes instead... read more
• April 15, 2005 at 6:52 am

  CJC says:

  It really is unfortunate that ATRA blames plaintiff's lawyers rather than shoddy contractors for the rise in defective construction suits. It is true that without such litiga... read more