Political Quotes

“In not one of those cases was there any wrongdoing found on the part of any of those defendants because all of those were settlements. They were extortionate settlements because they are in the jurisdiction of a court where they know they are facing a hanging judge and a hanging jury. The gentleman also raised another good point, and we should not leave plaintiffs in the situation where they get a 33-cent check or a coupon for a box of Cheerios, like in another case, and that is what this bill does. It requires extra-special scrutiny for coupon settlement cases so the courts will no longer let the manufacturers' attorneys and the defendants' attorneys come in with a settlement that simply gets out of the case, that gives the plaintiffs' attorney a huge sum of money and everyone else walks away and the plaintiffs get left holding the bag.”