Okla. City Class-Action Litigator Fears Impact of Bush Tort Reform

The Journal Record › February 21, 2005

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President Bush's signing Friday of legislation to move class- action lawsuits to federal court hurts litigants' chances of fair compensation, said an attorney at one of Oklahoma's most active law firms in class-action litigation.

It's absolutely terrific to protect the people who have been taking advantage of consumers, said attorney William B. Federman of the Federman & Sherwood firm in Oklahoma City. It's taking away people's rights. - A lot of these class actions are truly state consumer issues that should be decided by state courts.

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Okla. City Class-Action Litigator Fears Impact of Bush Tort Reform

The new law will shift most class-action lawsuits from state courts to federal courts, which traditionally have been less fri...

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