Defective Process Cripples Class Action Proposal

Law360, New York (April 7, 2017, 3:50 PM EDT) -- On March 9, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, without committee hearings, an act radically to change Rule 23 in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which governs the procedure for bringing of class actions. Bypassing the U.S. Supreme Court, the Rules Enabling Act and probably the Constitution, the new Congress placed in the forefront of its work for this session a bill of such thoughtlessness as it would be a fault in the extreme, and a slander, to label it "conservative."...

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