On the recordFebruary 10, 2005
This bill does not close the courthouse doors to injured or aggrieved plaintiffs. It does not. This is court reform. It is designed to rein in lawsuit abuses, and it does just that. The plaintiff may end up in Federal court, yes, rather than State court, but no citizen will lose his or her right to bring a case--no citizen. In fact, the Class Action Fairness Act will protect plaintiffs in large interstate class action cases. No longer will predatory lawyers be able to negotiate deals that leave their clients with coupons while they take home millions. Plaintiffs will now be covered by a consumer bill of rights for the first time, a consumer bill of rights that will require lawyer's fees for coupon settlements to be based either on the value of the coupons that are actually redeemed or on the hours actually billed.
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