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A majority of the Congress has favored a reform of class-action lawsuits for some time.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* A majority of the Congress has favored a reform of class-action lawsuits for some time. But it took the November elections, which sent four more Republican senators to Washington, to make it possible to overcome the obstacles that a determined minority of senators in hock to the trial lawyers had erected. Now reform has passed and been signed by the president. The legislation makes it ...
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