Clas$ Action is Dying - Long Liv€ Class Action

international | crime and justice | other press Friday February 25, 2005 11:20 by plaintiff judge defense counsel stenographer and jury. - "it's a law firm!"

(it's not really quite class war or class peace)

Before the Mc Libel Duo recently had time to file their claims on HMG UK for all the money Blair's regime refused them in their struggle against Mc Donalds, the Angel of the Lord George Bush had cleared through the US legislature the first part of his bid to stop "class actions".

Class actions are multi-state very american style law suits taken against corporations mostly under the guise of consumer relations (Nadarism) and rarely under the guise of worker relations (trade unionism an almost extinct activity in the USA).

member of the pharasee international.

The first corporations to benefit from the curtailing of class actions will be the Tobacco industry.

The Tobacco industry had faced law suits of billions of dollars by people who fell rightly or wrongly that being told for years that "lucky strikes" or "chesterfields" were good for your throat, or made you sexy, and then developed cancer can in some way be blamed on the world's largest restricted drug corporations.

Make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen of the jury and Juries-
Tobacco is a restricted drug, it is grown as a cash crop by campesinos who don't grow food instead, who don't get paid much at all in fact, and its more addicitive than smack.

Bush passed his Class Action Fairness Act in the new Congress with all the Republicans and many Democrats approving the bill by 279-149.

The Senate had previously voted 72-26.

" The Class Action Fairness Act is designed to funnel most such suits from state courts to the federal system -- a procedural change that could have major implications, since federal courts traditionally have been less sympathetic to class-action cases waged by plaintiffs claiming they have been victimized by fraud or negligence by corporations."
"the first part of a broader White House campaign to impose new rules designed to limit what Bush asserts is a glut of meritless lawsuits seeking billions of dollars"

:- House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., called Thursday's vote a "historic first step towards breaking one of the main shackles holding back our economy and America's work force -- lawsuit abuse."

Reflecting the frustrations of many Democrats, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the bill a "payback for big business at the expense of consumers."

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Like most things the Americans do, this has an effect on our side of the Atlantic.

The Irish ( I believe) are the second most litagous nation on earth, (correct me if i'm wrong) and the Irish nation has seen lots of law suits for compensation, some very just and some just silly.
A society of lawyers, breeds law suits, and a society where corporations boast tower blocks full of lawyers and claim the rights of citizens to protect "free speech", "imunity from intrusive investigation", "freedom to do what they want" is a society that is finally disappearing around its own colon of arse-gazing idiocy. Some think Bush is helping big business - others think Bush is helping big business by stopping big lawyers.

No-one thinks Bush is helping little people.

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2578574
http://www.freep.com/money/business/lawsuit19e_20050219.htm
http://www.nationalledger.com/commentary/article_1162.shtml
Let us be clear on this ladies and gentlemen of the jury and Juries-

Lawyers are paid too much, and held in too much esteem and don't do enough proper work and their splitting straw arguments have divided our society and ruined the US constitution and increasingly make a mockery of what most kids know is "right" or "wrong". There are obviously exceptions, Ivana Bacik, Micheal Mc Do well, her excellency an Uachtaran Mary Mc Aleese (like u) are lawyer types who'd be happy to argue your case in a tribunal or help you pass a just law.

May I remind you ladies and gentlemen of the jury and Juries-

Little people get treated like shite throughout the western world, where "states of law" are supposed to prevail within "democratic societies" and if they hadn't had the opportunity to study law and be a class A wanker at university, they probably will never extended benificial contact with the legal industry.

In summing up ladies and gentlemen of the jury and Juries-

we must be aware that this type of pharisee thing is coming our way to "turn it around europe".

For today the French have started their "class action" legislation debate as well.
and it seems Chirac wants to allow this type of thing, the timing of his moves would be a sign of the high esteem he holds Bush in-.
He hopes french lawyers will be able to represent class action cases in France (& europe) by the end of the year.

This is very good news for the Spanish, who boast the highest percentage of non practising law graduates in the Union, perhaps they'll be able to band together and represent the poor.

http://www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/2005-02-25/2005-02-25-457384
http://www.lexpansion.com/NLTech/3661.16.html
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/politique/20050224.FAP6636.html?1403