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Why Did Obama Vote for a Bad Tort Reform Bill? | 35 comments (35 topical)

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Good article, and here's this (5.00 / 1) (#37)
by andrys on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:42:22 AM EST
Thanks for that.

In Chris Hodges' Hope for Corporate America there's this:

He worked tirelessly in the Senate in 2005 to pass a class-action "reform" bill that was part of a large lobbying effort by financial firms, which make up Obama's second-biggest single bloc of donors.

The law, with the Orwellian title the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), would effectively shut down state courts as a venue to hear most class-action lawsuits. This has long been a cherished goal of large corporations as well as the Bush administration. It effectively denies redress in many of the courts where these cases have a chance of defying powerful corporate challenges. It moves these cases into corporate-friendly federal courts dominated by Republican judges.

Even Hillary Clinton voted against this naked effort to allow corporations to carry out flagrant discrimination, consumer fraud and wage-and-hour violations.



- Andrys


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