• Here’s what happened: Austin attorney Roger Borgelt is out with an opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News about the American Tort Reform Foundation’s Judicial Hellholes report naming the Dallas-based Fifth Court of Appeals to its “Watch List.”
• Tell me more: The watch list highlights courts with a pattern of unfairly applying the law—in the case of the Fifth Court, being pro-plaintiff and pro-liability expansion and repeatedly misapplying state precedents, which then require review and reversal by the Texas Supreme Court. 
• TLR Thoughts: While the Legislature has taken great strides to stop lawyer-driven, abusive lawsuits when they occur, this report highlights a greater problem: the laws passed don’t matter if we don’t elect fair and experienced judges to apply them. 

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