While it may be tempting to have flush corporate law firms subsidize the state court system, this is not the way to do it.
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Birdena Frye, 37, a clerk for the New York State Court System, is flying to New Orleans from New York City in late April.
As that suit makes its way through the New York state court system, the civil liberties watchdog is taking its litigation to the next level.
Business has less riding on this case than it did before 2005, when Congress passed the Class Action Fairness Act making it much easier to pull class actions out of state court into the federal system.
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ImClone and Bristol-Myers are incorporated in Delaware, as are thousands of other companies, because the state has low taxes and a court system that is perceived as being more favorable to corporate managers than other states.
ImClone (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) and Bristol-Myers (nyse: BMY - news - people ) are incorporated in Delaware, as are thousands of other companies, because the state has low taxes and a court system that is perceived as being more favorable to corporate managers than other states.
The group won a major victory in 2003 when the state's highest court declared the funding system unconstitutional.
In addition, recent federal court rulings limited damage settlements in the case, relegating plaintiffs to class-action remedies in the federal court system rather than by jury in the state courts.
"If yesterday's constitutional court ruling bans parliament from implementing its responsibilities then we will respect that because we are a state of the law that respects the judges and the court system, " the president's statement said.
With 50 separate state governments and court hierarchies beneath the federal level, the American legal system is more complex than that of any other nation, and the country has, by far, more lawyers than any other.
Legislation passed two years ago that was designed to prevent class-action abuse has reduced the number of those types of cases filed in state courts, but it also seems to have placed unforeseen strains on the federal court system because the law was drafted so poorly, experts say.
In the U.S., courts are governed by state law over whether to honor foreign judgments, and evidence of fraud or a hopelessly corrupt court system is one key factor they consider.
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The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state officials violated the law last summer during a takeover of the Bridgeport public school system.
The federal court system, long on tradition and resistant to change, needs to join the overwhelming majority of state courts which allow video coverage of judicial proceedings.
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With its combination of dangerous mining and heavy-industry jobs and a legal system that makes it hard to overturn generous verdicts--appeals go straight to the state Supreme Court, which can accept or reject them as it pleases--West Virginia ranked 50th for the third year in a row in the Chamber survey.
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