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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: (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

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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

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Lawsuit Lending: S.B. 882 (2015)

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

Arkansas

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Lawsuit Lending: S.B. 1360 (2014)

The bill is lawsuit lending regulatory legislation.

Tennessee

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Lawsuit Lending: SB 1360 (2014)

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

Tennessee

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

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

Oklahoma

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Lawsuit Lending Study Bill: H.B. 1558 (2013)

Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on insurance, during the 2013 interim of the general assembly, the topic of con...

Indiana

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Lawsuit Lending Study Bill: HB 1558 (2013)

Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on insurance, duringt he 2013 interim of the general assembly, the topic of con...

Indiana

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Lawsuit Lending Reform: SB 1016 (2013)

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

Oklahoma

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