Article: Give us Madison County of bridge fame anytime

There isn't much denying that Madison County is becoming an infamous "judicial hell hole" - Illinois, that is, not Iowa.

But you must be careful where you say that.

Heads of the American Tort Reform Association, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Chamber of Commerce and Illinois Civil Justice League marched into Madison County recently to conduct a press conference condemning the judicial system there. They wound up getting a citation from one of the local class-action attorneys - a subpoena.

They were subpoenaed in a lawsuit in which none of the participants had any involvement or knew anything about. Maybe they were surprised, but people who follow the class-action lawsuit justice in ...

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