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Class Action Fairness Act

The Class Action Fairness Act is an important civil reform measure to expand federal diversity jurisdiction over class action suits. Plaintiff's attorneys often join nominal parties to their class action suits in order to defeat diversity jurisdiction, thereby availing themselves of state court jurisdictions they believe to have a more liberal procedural environment in which to pursue their action. The Class Action Fairness Act would mandate that more big class actions involving interstate issues be heard in federal court, overcoming diversity jurisdiction roadblocks. Federal courts are historically more balanced when weighing plaintiff and defendant rights in class actions, and are better equipped to deal with these complex issues.

There are two versions of the bill (both available in PDF format). In order to view and print these documents you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have the Reader installed, you may download it for free from the Adobe website.

  • S.353

  • S.353


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