Class-Action Abuses Highlighted
Posted by Hans Bader
In Saturday’s Washington Post, I have a letter discussing class-action lawsuit abuses. It discusses how class-action lawsuit “settlements intended to benefit consumers get paid instead to groups that lobby for affirmative action, hate-crimes laws, undocumented immigrants, and public funding for abortions.” When lawyers bring lawsuits in the name of consumers, the money they recover should go to consumers, not to promote their lawyers’ ideologies.
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4 Responses to “Class-Action Abuses Highlighted”
Posted by: Housing Bill Contains Left-Wing Pork: Subsidies for La Raza | OpenMarket.org - 05/05/2008
[...] (Class action money ends up being diverted to political causes irrelevant to most consumers, like lobbying for affirmative action). We wrote earlier about Barney Frank’s terrible mortgage bailout bill and how it would [...]
Posted by: Class Action Lawsuits Fund Diversity Racket and Special Interest Lobbying | OpenMarket.org - 05/30/2008
[...] vetoes it. I earlier wrote in the Washington Post about how class-action lawsuit “settlements intended to benefit consumers get paid instead to groups that lobby for affirmative acti….” Some of these same groups are slated to receive taxpayer money under earmarks in federal [...]
Posted by: Class Action Lawsuits Fund Diversity Racket and Special Interest Lobbying | OpenMarket.org - 05/30/2008
[...] vetoes it. I earlier wrote in the Washington Post about how class-action lawsuit “settlements intended to benefit consumers get paid instead to groups that lobby for affirmative acti….” Some of these same groups are slated to receive taxpayer money under earmarks in federal [...]
Posted by: Class Action Lawsuits Fund Diversity Racket and Special Interest Lobbying | OpenMarket.org - 05/30/2008
[...] vetoes it. I earlier wrote in the Washington Post about how class-action lawsuit “settlements intended to benefit consumers get paid instead to groups that lobby for affirmative acti….” Some of these same groups are slated to receive taxpayer money under earmarks in federal [...]
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