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The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017: Will It Pass and Can It Be Improved?
The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act, also known as H.R. 985, passed the House earlier this year by a largely party line vote. If passed, this bill would represent…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Legislative Update on HR 985, 725, and 720
Bruce Kaufman, at Bloomberg BNA, has posted an update on class action and MDL legislation pending in the Senate. The bottom line is that these reforms seem to have stalled…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
A Note to Mass Tort Plaintiffs on HR 985
HR 985, the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2017, has now passed the House and is pending in the Senate's Committee on the…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
House of Representatives Passes H.R. 725 & H.R. 985
We covered earlier several bills that could make significant changes to federal civil procedure. Two of these passed the House of Representatives yesterday.H.R. 725 (the Innocent Party Protection Act) passed…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Litigation Reform’s Legislative Prospects
Bruce Kaufman, the senior legal editor at Bloomberg BNA, has written a very informative series of articles examining the prospects that the House, Senate, and President will enact wide-ranging tort…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
House May Receive Amendments to Bills on Rule 11, Class Actions, MDLs, and Joinder
The House of Representatives Committee on Rules has announced that it will meet the week of March 6 “to grant a rule that may provide a structured amendment process for…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Academic Roundup on HR 985
Academics have been busy this week providing commentary on HR 985, the "Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017." Here's a round-up of the commentary thus far (and please…
Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Class Dismissed? New House Bill Could Transform Federal Class Action Law
By Josh Foust
[caption id="attachment_2228" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo credit: Getty Images[/caption] Just a week before Congress began its first extended recess of 2017, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee took a step…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
H.R. 985: An Attempt to Undermine Class Actions & MDL
Class actions and MDL have real problems that need fixing. I have written about these problems at length, most recently in Aggregation as Disempowerment. But the new bill that just passed…
Litigation & Trial
HR 985: A Sneak Attack On Veterans, Consumers, and Patients
Without even holding a hearing, the House Judiciary Committee just passed a new bill (H.R. 985) that would make it far harder to sue large corporations when they cheat or…