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Search our comprehensive database to learn about the civil justice reform laws ATRA has worked to pass at the federal level and in state legislatures, when they were passed, and whether they have been challenged in the courts. Newly enacted legislation for the current year is typically added and updated in July to record the individual state accomplishments of the last legislative year.

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Appeal Bond Reform: SB 2198 (2009)

Limits the amount a defendant can be required to pay to secure the right to appeal to $200 million. The limit applies to Engle progeny litigation, an...

Florida

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Appeal Bond Reform: H.B. 841 (2006); Fla. Stat. § 45.045

Limits the amount a defendant can be required to pay to secure the right to appeal in any civil action, except for certified class actions subject 768...

Florida

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Appeal Bond Reform: S 2826 (2003); Fla. Stat. § 569.23

Limits the amount that signatories to the Master Settlement Agreement are required to pay to secure the right to appeal to $100 million.

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Appeal Bond Reform: HB 1721 (2000); Fla. Stat. § 215.56005; Amending Fla. Stat. § 17.41

Limits the amount a defendant can be required to pay to secure the right to appeal punitive damages awards in class actions to the lesser of 10% of th...

Florida

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Appeal Bond Reform: HB 1366 (2003); Amended C.R.S. 13-16-125

Limits the amount a defendant can be required to pay to secure the right to appeal to $25 million.

Colorado

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Appeal Bond Reform: AB 1752 (2003)

Limits the amount a signatory to the Master Settlement Agreement can be required to pay to secure the right to appeal to $150 million and applies to a...

California

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Appeal Bond Reform: S.B. 1212 (2011), A.R.S. § 12-2108

Limits the amount of an appeal bond to the lesser of the total amount of damages awarded excluding punitive damages, 50% of the appellant’s net ...

Arizona

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Appeal Bond Reform: S.B. 937 (2005)

Broadened 2003 law to apply to all causes of action regardless of when they accrued.

Arkansas

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Appeal Bond Reform: HB 1038 (2003)

Limits the amount a defendant can be required to pay to secure the right to appeal to $25 million.

Arkansas

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Appeal Bond Reform: H.B. 220 (2006); Code of Ala. § 6-12-4

Limits the amount a signatory to the Master Settlement Agreement can be required to pay to secure the right to appeal to $125 million.

Alabama

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