Judicial Ruling Threatens Economic Health in South Carolina
September 5, 2008
A decision last month by the South Carolina Supreme Court threatens to make businesses in the state an even bigger target for enterprising trial attorneys.
Cam Crawford, Executive Director of the South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition says the new ruling (Colleton Prep Academy v. Hoover Universal) would allow personal injury lawyers and their plaintiffs to sue companies and recover big damage awards even if they’ve never been injured. In reaching its decision, the Court tossed aside long-standing precedent, shedding its role as an impartial arbiter of the law and assuming the power of the state’s regulatory and legislative bodies.
It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what the impact of this ruling will be: South Carolina courts will soon be clogged with all manner of frivolous cases against every imaginable product manufacturer. Many innocent companies will be forced to the settlement table to pay off trial lawyers and their uninjured clients rather than risk a “bet-the-company” lawsuit.
Crawford says a legislative fix may be needed to reverse this legal travesty. This may stem the damage in the short-term. But one of the best solutions to an arrogant, out-of-control judiciary is to make judges more accountable to the people they are supposed to serve by replacing judicial appointments with democratic judicial elections.
Posted by Dan Pero in the categories: Judicial Elections, South Carolina, Tort Reform, Trial Lawyers
One Response to “Judicial Ruling Threatens Economic Health in South Carolina”
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. We continue to tolerate “fox guard the chicken house” attorney discipline because it’s easier, expedient –, and “legally safer” to stay ignorant and “not wanna get involved”. But in case there are some of your subscribers who care enough to truly want to clean up the legal profession and the judiciary and have the courage and determination to “go to war” with enough determination to do the job” –, there is a way to do it! I am going to provide some information that will greatly enhance our chances of success via “knowing the facts, identifying the root problem” and fixing it once and for all!
Why don’t you start by profiling the rotten state of all 50 state “fox guarding the chicken house” attorney “discipline” bureaucracies that the vast majority of victims don’t even know exist much less how and where to file a formal complaint against an attorney. Why don’t you post HALT’s web site on YOUR web site with instructions on how to find and read all 50 state 2006 Attorney Discipline Report Cards? Or is there some reason you do not wish to reveal that information to your subscribers? If you do want to post that information go to http://www.halt.org When the site comes up #1 Click on Reform Projects. #2. Click on Lawyer Discipline. #3. Click on 2006 Lawyer Discipline Report Cards in the faded window on the left side of the web page. Then click on the U. S. map state by state. Notice Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, California etc.
Ivan L. Fail: Retired Federal Officer and veteran of two malicioius, frivolous lawsuits
(one not profession related)
Sparta, Missouri