February 19, 2005

"The [Class Action Fairness Act] is the first significant Congressional tort 'reform' victory for the radical right and a catastrophe for workers and consumers."

"Corporations may rue the day they fought for class-action reform."

Mencimer argues that federal jurisdiction should be restricted to issues of national importance (one looks forward to her call for the repeal of the IDEA), and that federal courts can't handle the influx of nationwide class actions because "In 2004, the federal courts saw a nearly 10-percent increase in new filings over the previous year." This is curious because she was recently lauded by many blogs for criticizing Stuart Taylor for disagreeing with Mencimer's earlier claim that filings are decreasing. An understandable oversight when, like a drunk and a lamppost, one uses statistics for support rather than illumination.