On the recordMarch 11, 1994
I rise in support of the Brown amendment, and I do that because we need to make sure that Federal courts are open to all who have legitimate claims. That is not the case now, because there is such a big amount of cases coming, some without merit, clogging our courts. It seems to me that at the same time we are concerned that the Federal courts ought to be open to all legitimate claims, we also need to ensure that frivolous cases neither compete for attention with meritorious ones, nor that frivolous Federal litigation be used as a weapon. As Federal civil litigation has grown, the number of frivolous cases has also grown.
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