The American Tort Reform Association published its Judicial Hellholes 2007, er, report. Imagine Blawgletter’s excitement.
Adam Liptak, in his Sidebar column at the NYT, points out a few shortcomings in the, ah, report — including that "[i]t has no apparent methodology."
[Meanwhile, the folks at Addicting Games have a series of HellHoles episodes, which apparently have nothing to do with judges or courts. See the first one here.]
We note that you’d better not compose your own list of judicial hellholes. That little "(R)" in Judicial Hellholes(R) means ATRA registered it with the Patent and Trademark Office — presumably so they can sue your pants off for tradmark infringement if you use "hellhole" to describe a court where, say, defendants win all the time. Even if you have a methodology.
Barry Barnett
