We need to make sure plaintiff attorneys will not look to exploit biased courtrooms across the country by finding even the thinnest of connections between their cases and the state.
It has become a textbook case of a state-court lawsuit so rife with legal errors that it now threatens the fairness of the judicial system across the country. The case is Ingham v. Johnson & Johnson and the now-infamous courtroom was based right in my hometown of St. Louis. With so many irregularities tied to this case, one has to wonder why the trial was held in St. Louis. It turns out the trial attorney masterminds behind Ingham had about 4.7 billion reasons to bring their claims to St. Louis............
The argument is straightforward. Plaintiffs brought their case in
Missouri despite only the most tenuous connections to the state: Of the
22 plaintiffs, only five lived or worked in Missouri. As a result, a
jury of Missourians was asked to follow 218 jury instructions from 12
different states that took more than five hours to read. ...............Unfortunately, Missouri courtrooms
are well-known for being slanted against employers. The state’s legal
climate is consistently ranked among the least fair in the nation. ...........To Read More...
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