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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 8, 2007

Make Class Certification Appealing

Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - The rant from the plaintiffs' bar about the latest bad news on the fairness and reasonableness of California's litigation climate should come as no surprise.

FORUM COLUMN

By John H. Sullivan

      Less rant, more reason.
      That's what I had hoped for from the plaintiffs'-lawyer opponents of the Civil Justice Association of California proposal, AB 1505, by D-Parra, to bring balance, clarity and fairness to state class-action law. I had no similar hope for their reaction to the Harris interactive survey's new bad news on the fairness and reasonableness ...

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