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How can this Class Action legislation be overturned ?
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Edited on Sat Feb-19-05 12:00 PM by shance
and/ or circumvented?

This is terrible legislation that will harm Americans and our power to make corporations accountable.

What is the procedure to overturn horrible legislation like this?

What can citizens do?

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  -How can this Class Action legislation be overturned ? shance  Feb-19-05 12:00 PM   #0 
  - Pass legislation repealing it.  bowens43   Feb-19-05 12:01 PM   #1 
  - maybe a class action suit will help  Feeney2   Feb-19-05 12:02 PM   #2 
  - You can still file class action suits in Federal Court.  candy   Feb-19-05 12:07 PM   #3 
  - I so LOATHE posts like this...please try to KNOW your subject before  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 12:14 PM   #6 
  - Thanks NSMA***That's great info.  shance   Feb-19-05 01:31 PM   #10 
  - (grin) We even share the same "fear and loathing" it seems.  TahitiNut   Feb-19-05 03:03 PM   #23 
  - Nothing angers me more than liberals who blather on with RW talking  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 04:45 PM   #32 
     - (cough|chuckle) Tell me about it ...  TahitiNut   Feb-19-05 05:56 PM   #36 
  - Thank you.  me b zola   Feb-20-05 02:00 AM   #46 
  - One last point...they ADVERTISE to get the word out to victims  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 01:38 PM   #12 
  - *Calling Candy...please come to the white courtesy keyboard*  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 01:39 PM   #13 
  - Huh?  candy   Feb-19-05 02:05 PM   #15 
  - There is truth in that there are those who try and exploit the system  shance   Feb-19-05 01:41 PM   #14 
  - I've gotten coupons before  Egalitariat   Feb-19-05 02:24 PM   #16 
  - Coupons are always good. Haven't gotten any from Blockbuster  shance   Feb-19-05 02:42 PM   #19 
  - How much did you lose? How much did the lawyers invest in the case?  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 02:44 PM   #21 
  - I didn't lose anything. Which made me wonder why  Egalitariat   Feb-19-05 07:00 PM   #38 
     - If you weren't harmed, then why did you respond to the lawsuit?  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-20-05 01:46 AM   #44 
  - I thought you were joking Egal. Are you talking about an actual  shance   Feb-19-05 03:11 PM   #25 
     - Not joking. And I didn't know I was involved until I got the  Egalitariat   Feb-19-05 06:59 PM   #37 
        - Seriously. That is amazing.  shance   Feb-19-05 08:13 PM   #41 
  - oh boy....  RPM   Feb-20-05 08:38 AM   #49 
  - Can it go to the Supreme Court as a states rights issue?  BuyingThyme   Feb-19-05 12:09 PM   #4 
  - So explaine this to me because I do have a BIG problem with  napi21   Feb-19-05 12:12 PM   #5 
  - By "MOST OF THE MONEY" that implies over 50%...  tx_dem41   Feb-19-05 12:16 PM   #7 
  - I think he meant that the attorneys usually get 1000 times (or more)  Egalitariat   Feb-19-05 02:26 PM   #17 
     - They also DO 5000 times more than individual plaintiffs  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 04:16 PM   #28 
  - See my post above. When people enter class action suits, it is not so  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 12:16 PM   #8 
  - I don't doubt that they alter future behavoir, and that's a good thing.  napi21   Feb-19-05 01:00 PM   #9 
     - That's only 2 or 3 million per lawyer  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 01:36 PM   #11 
        - If you are correct, and there really is that much invested in the suit,  napi21   Feb-19-05 02:53 PM   #22 
        - Then you don't know the history of class action suits  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-19-05 04:22 PM   #30 
        - Why does it matter how much was invested or how long it took?  Egalitariat   Feb-19-05 07:11 PM   #39 
           - Comparatively they aren't high profits  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-20-05 01:48 AM   #45 
  - You are wrong here (or at least overbroad).  sadiesworld   Feb-20-05 04:30 AM   #48 
  - By electing better congresspeople /eom  ChairOne   Feb-19-05 02:35 PM   #18 
  - Then we better take our votes back from the electronic voting machin  shance   Feb-19-05 03:09 PM   #24 
     - BBV is a far smaller problem than an idiot electorate.....  ChairOne   Feb-19-05 04:41 PM   #31 
  - To answer the original question...  WillowTree   Feb-19-05 02:43 PM   #20 
  - What about state laws? Any way they might be able to enter in?  shance   Feb-19-05 03:12 PM   #26 
     - No.  WillowTree   Feb-19-05 09:04 PM   #43 
  - Funny how trial lawyers (for citizens) are targetteed - but there is NEVER  salin   Feb-19-05 03:22 PM   #27 
  - Great points Salin***points I've really never considered.  shance   Feb-19-05 04:19 PM   #29 
  - ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##  DU GrovelBot   Feb-19-05 04:45 PM   #33 
  - Not use those corporations? I'm assuming we're still allowed to look up  HypnoToad   Feb-19-05 04:53 PM   #34 
  - Oh, how I love simplistic, Republicanesque answers.....  shance   Feb-19-05 07:21 PM   #40 
  - TWO WAYS  sacxtra   Feb-19-05 05:51 PM   #35 
  - Clog state courts  KT2000   Feb-19-05 08:28 PM   #42 
  - Not a bad idea***  shance   Feb-20-05 02:56 PM   #52 
  - we are off topic... the topic is overturning the class action legislation.  cap   Feb-20-05 02:18 AM   #47 
     - Well they haven't given up their right to due process since they  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-20-05 01:05 PM   #50 
        - BTW TOTALLY OFF TOPIC  nothingshocksmeanymore   Feb-20-05 02:10 PM   #51 
        - So, through the appointment of extremist Federal judges, we essentially  shance   Feb-20-05 03:04 PM   #53 
 

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