Amendments and Class-Action Reform ; How Lawmakers Doomed Tort Legislation
The Washington Times › July 15, 2004
Linked as:
Summary
Thousands of years ago, near the city of Nineveh, capital of the huge Assyrian empire, Jonah the prophet was swallowed by a whale and sat in its belly for three days - about the minimum amount of time it takes to end a filibuster in the Senate.
Last week, here in another capital city, a figurative whale known as "Senate procedure" gulped another victim when it swallowed the class-action reform bill - thereby dooming legislation intended to curb the growing and costly problem of lawsuit abuse. Both the biblical narrative and the parable of the class-action reform provide useful insights into life's uncertainties - in the latter case, the exigencies of life in the modern Senate.See the full content of this document
Extract
Amendments and Class-Action Reform ; How Lawmakers Doomed Tort Legislation
The failure to pass this legislation underscores the need to shine some sunlight on practices buried deep in the belly of the Senate beast. Obscuring these practices will stymie much-needed reforms de...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
