WASHINGTON--A civil litigation reform group said today that six legal jurisdictions that made its "Judicial Hell Holes" list last year are back on it again in a new order that puts West Virginia in first place.
The listing by the American Tort Reform Association was not without controversy an opposing group called the ATLA findings "vicious."
ATLA said last year's number one "hell hole," the Rio Grande Valley and Gulf Coast of Texas, fell to the number three spot in 2006, effectively switching places in the rankings with West Virginia.
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