Barack Obama Voted Against Regular Citizens in Class Action Lawsuits - Clinton Voted For Us

[NashVegas]

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00009

In this vote, the Senate passed S. 5, a bill to move many interstate, class-action lawsuits (multiple claims from various lawsuits with parties in more than one state combined into one, larger lawsuit) from state to federal courts and to make other changes regarding this type of lawsuit. Procedure in federal courts is generally considered less friendly to consumers than in state courts. The bill, strongly favored by corporations that assert that a glut of lawsuits is threatening their survival, would grant federal jurisdiction over these suits where the total disputed amount is larger than $5 million. Supporters of the legislation claimed that the bill would prevent practices such as "forum shopping;" i.e., when lawyers file suits in the jurisdictions where plaintiffs tend to win large awards. In opposing the legislation, Progressives were joined by civil rights, consumer and other public interest groups in arguing that it would prevent seriously injured plaintiffs from obtaining justice, as the federal courts are already overburdened with case backlogs and because those courts might be less inclined to approve large monetary awards even where they are truly deserved. About half of all Democrats joined Republicans to pass the legislation by a vote of 72 to 26; thus defeating Progressives and approving legislation that would make it more difficult for whole classes of injured consumers to go to federal court to seek redress for their grievances.

http://www.progressivepunch.org/vote.jsp?member=ILIII&issue=M9&year=2005&num=9&district=At%20large

Discuss

[golddigger]

1. Crickets...chirp, chirp, chirp!!!

:popcorn:

[NashVegas]

3. Yeah, I Noticed That

I guess there's simply no defending that vote.

[DemGa]

2. K & R

[MJJLWolf2]

4. Clinton voted against the war!

Oh no wait LOLZZZZZZZZ.

Oh btw there's no way she can win! And just to stick it to you even further, welp, she isn't capable of winning!

KThanks.

[Straight Shooter]

5. Just a quick scan of that, I get the impression that's the same as bush's tort reform in Texas.

It helps the corporations and the insurance companies, has not helped the "little person" at all. Nor has it made any appreciable difference in insurance rates. The stockholders won, not the policyholders.

[jackson_dem]

6. It is. This was Bush, the corporations, and the rethugs bill

[jackson_dem]

7. His rhetoric doesn't match his record

The msm is hiding his record. If he is the nominee we will finally hear about it. We need to vet him ourselves as political consumers now before we go on a blind date.