California has once again been identified as the No. 1 “Judicial Hellhole” in the nation, according to the latest rankingof the “most unfair” civil litigation courts by the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF).
Specific California cities and counties have regularly been cited for their civil justice system imbalances by the Judicial Hellholes report since its inaugural edition in 2002.
All of California was ranked No. 1 among the nation’s Judicial Hellholes in both 2012 and 2013. Some believed that costly cases in California’s clogged civil courts had earned a third straight No. 1 ranking in 2014. But corruption in New York City’s asbestos court, which has since led to the related arrest and conviction of the Empire State’s once most powerful legislator relegated California to No. 2 last year.
The report cites the latest data available from the Court Statistics Project of the National Center for State Courts, showing that more than a million new lawsuits are being filed annually in California’s state courts alone. Tens of thousands more are filed in federal courts here.
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