Arlen Specter: “I believe that a very key provision for limiting frivolous lawsuits would be to tighten up the current mechanism to give…”

“I believe that a very key provision for limiting frivolous lawsuits would be to tighten up the current mechanism to give greater authority under rule 11 to the judges who sit on those cases to try to influence or discourage frivolous lawsuits. My reading of the substitute amendment shows that the amendment offered by the distinguished Senator from Colorado, Senator Brown, an amendment which I supported and which I think would be of substantial help in discouraging frivolous litigation, and therefore a provision which I think ought to be in the bill, has been deleted.”