HR 985 "fairness" in class action bill

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/320360-new-republican-bill-would-gut-class-actions-not-improve-them

Brown vs. Board of Education? Yeah this wouldn't happen if this bill is passed.

You can research it further, but all in all, you might want to call your reps about this.

HR 985

I have a colleague from law school, a staunch Trump supporter, who runs a lucrative class action law firm. I'm wondering how he is feeling right now about supporting Trump.

Re: HR 985 "fairness" in class action bill

Bill might be bad, but I can't tell from that article. Hard for discrimination cases? Yeah, they shouldn't be in class actions except for 23(b)(2) classes anyway. No one has a company wide policy of intentional discrimination. This is just hucksters mad they can't sue everyone for disparate impact.

If you want to make class actions better, require that putative counsel submit sealed bids to the court, and the court chooses the bid which maximizes value to the class. Also, no attorney's fees for any 23(b)(3) class settlement unless the plaintiffs have monetary recovery to the class members. Those two rules alone would filter out 90% of the class action hucksters.

This is just a hand out for big money. Trump selling the middle class American down the stream so to speak. It remains to be seen how this will work out in practice. Current practices encourage class action plaintiffs counsel to bring nonsense claims or colude with defendants to screw the class for their own personal enrichment. That doesn't help consumers either.

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