SENATE JUDICIARY SENDS CLASS ACTION BILL TO FLOOR

[housewolf]

While we were busy with Gonzales...


SENATE JUDICIARY SENDS CLASS ACTION BILL TO FLOOR

By a bipartisan 13-5 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee today approved a
bill that would shift many class action lawsuits from state to federal
court. The panel made no amendments to the bill, which tracks a compromise
package assembled last year but never passed. Three Democrats -- Dianne
Feinstein of California, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Charles E. Schumer of
New York -- joined all 10 committee Republicans in sending the measure to
the Senate floor, where debate will begin next week. Keeping the bill free
of amendments remains the key to ensuring passage in both the Senate and
in the House, where GOP leaders have indicated they are willing to take up
the Senate version of the bill as long as it carries no amendments.
Senate aides said they expect five or more amendments to be offered on the
floor, but it is not clear whether any will prevail.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. What do you expect

When you hire monkey, you get paid peanuts.

[EC]

2. Well, on this one, I don't know, but

it may be a good idea...instead of fighting in multiple courts, through appeals - but then again, can you appeal the Supreme Court? And if the suit is brought against a national interest..I guess it makes sense...

[sandnsea]

3. Not to be a nag, but...

this is why we need a legislation forum. :)

This legislation would stop all state class-action lawsuits against big out-of-state corporations. The cases would sit around in federal courts that are overcrowded already. State law would not keep up with current legal questions that are used to build precedence for future cases. You have to know when big business supports this, it's not good for the rest of us. If Bush gets his way with all this privatization, neither the government or the corporations will be accountable for anything.