Reforms

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

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

Arkansas
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
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
Appeal Bond Reform: (1987)
Repeals Alabama’s affirmance fee rule, which assessed a fee of 10% of the judgment against defendants (but not plaintiffs) who appealed cases an...
Alabama
Appeal Bond Reform: HB 4 (2003)
Limits the amount a defendant can be required to pay to secure the right to appeal to the lesser of 50% of a defendant’s net worth or $25 million.  Pr...
Texas
Lawsuit Lending: S.B. 882 (2015)

Lawsuit lending alignment bill that would place the industry under the state’s usury laws.

Arkansas
Lawsuit Lending: S.B. 1360 (2014)

The bill is lawsuit lending regulatory legislation.

Tennessee
Lawsuit Lending: SB 1360 (2014)

The bill is lawsuit lending regulatory legislation. (Jack Johnson – R)

Tennessee
Lawsuit Lending Reform: S.B. 1016 (2013)

Subjects consumer lawsuit lenders to Oklahoma’s Uniform Consumer Credit Code.

Oklahoma
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