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Statement from The State Chamber:

"We are very pleased to see that our legislature's hard work in passing comprehensive tort reform this past year has been recognized. Not only did ATRA recognize Oklahoma as a 'Point of Light' in their report, they specifically set out the reasons why", said Mike Seney, Senior Vice President of Operations for The State Chamber.

"The judicial Hellholes Report is widely recognized by business leaders around the nation for identifying those communities and states where you probably don't want to do business. After being identifed on the "Watch List" for the past several years, it is good for the future of Oklahoma business to see us highlighted positively."

The American Tort Refrom Association (ATRA) released its 2009/2010 Judicial Hellholes® report, a valuable contribution to the political and legislative drive for civil litigation reform. The big news:

WASHINGTON D.C., December 15, 2009 - The American Tort Reform Foundation today released its annual Judicial Hellholes® report, naming some of the nation's "most unfair civil court jurisdictions," including first-time "Hellholes" New York City and the appellate courts of New Mexico, which join perennials South Florida, West Virginia, Cook County, Illnois, and Atlantic County, New Jersey.

The report also cites several "Watch List" jurisdictions that are on the cusp - "they may fall into the Hellholes abyss or rise to the promise of Equal Justice Under Law" - in California, Alabama, and former Hellholes in the Rio Grande Valley and Gulf Coast of Texas, Madison County, Illinois, and Jefferson County, Mississippi.

Among the jurisdictions noted less severely as "other areas to watch" are Madison County neighbor St. Clair County, Illinois, Orleans and Jefferson parishes in Louisianna, and Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada.

You can read the full report at www.atra.org.
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