It's been a busy April 'round these parts, even if there
haven't been many posts going up. So I thought I would let
everyone in on a few of the things that have been going on:
HR 1927. Earlier this month, Congressman Bob
Goodlatte proposed HR 1927, a bill to cut down on the kind
of overbroad "no-injury" class actions that seek to turn
idiosyncratic product defects into full-blown federal cases.
There's been a heavy push against the bill, mostly based on the mistaken
belief that it would prohibit Rule 23(b)(2) class actions
completely, and, of course, the old canard about how this time,
we're looking at the death of the class action. I testified in
support of the bill yesterday. You can find my testimony (as well
as that of John Beisner, Mark Behrens, and Professor Alexandra
Lahav) here. And you can see Perry Cooper's
live-tweeting of the testimony on her Twitter
feed.
