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Editorial: Maintain class-action reform push.(Opinions)(Editorial)
Business Insurance, September, 2003
SENATE PASSAGE OF class-action reform legislation may finally be within reach. But reaching that goal may require a little more work by risk managers and others who want to restore some balance to a class-action system that's too often out of whack. As we report on page 1, as of late last week, supporters of S.
274, the Class Action Fairness Act, thought they had 57 votes for moving the bill to a final vote. That's a clear majority of the Senate's 100 members. But, under Senate rules, 60 senators must vote in favor of cloture-a parliamentary move that ends debate-to cut off a filibuster. If 60 senators don't agree to end debate, then a determined minority of their colleagues can literally talk a bill to death. That would be particularly unfortunate in the...
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