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> these clauses preventing class action lawsuits seem baseless to me. I'd go even further and say corrupt and evil. Yet these baseless clauses have been around
by defined 9y ago
> these clauses preventing class action lawsuits seem baseless to me.
I'd go even further and say corrupt and evil. Yet these baseless clauses have been around long before the modern GOP, so while I agree with your sentiment, I'd broaden it from "GOP" to "greedy corporates and their government puppets from any political party."
- noobermin 9y agoWhile you're right, Dems recieve a lot of Wall Street cash and do their bidding often, here all D's voted against it.[0] Both are "corrupted" to use your words but I'd say one is "worse" at least on this one issue. [0] And yes, most did it for political reasons I imagine.
- akvadrako 9y agoThis easily could have been an issue raised during a Democratic majority congress and passed with the same story. After all, everybody hates lawyers that get rich while class members get a coupon. It's not about the issue.
- kbrwn 9y agoDemocrats passed the law that created the agency Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- alejohausner 9y agoYou may complain that class-action lawyers get much more money than the plaintiffs, but that's the nature of class actions. They are meant for situations where many indiviuals are harmed, but each harm is too small to justify the cost of a court case. So naturally the plaintiffs get small payouts: each of them suffered a small damage. And the lawyers get big payouts: they handled the paperwork of thousands of clients.
- akvadrako 9y agoI wasn't actually saying class actions are bad, but that it makes a workable political excuse.
- ambicapter 9y ago> They are meant for situations where many indiviuals are harmed, but each harm is too small to justify the cost of a court case. Don't they also get used for cases where (spitballing here) half a town gets cancer because the chemical plant in the area has been illegal dumping their effluents next door?
- howard941 9y agoThose cancer victims aren't getting coupons
- kalleboo 9y agoTo expound on your [0], remember that Republicans voted on repealing Obamacare when they knew it was going to be vetoed, but once they were actually in control, suddenly they didn't have enough votes.
- ifhd 9y agoExcept the democrats were the ones who put in these rules in the first place.
- acdha 9y ago… and that’s true on almost every issue of importance (climate change, healthcare, etc.). The main exception is deference to national security agencies on things like encryption or detention.
- defined 9y agoNitpick: my word was "corrupt", not "corrupted".
- fmihaila 9y agoAnd yet, this particular law was opposed by all Democrats in the Senate and was supported by every Republican except two. It passed due to Mike Pence's tie-breaking vote.