Federalizing Class Actions Protects Negligent Drug Makers and Hurts Vioxx Victims

Individual personal injury actions, consolidated by state courts for efficiency purposes, are not class actions. Yet these cases would nonetheless be federalized under a proposed class action bill. The bill even invents a new term for these cases "mass actions" to make it appear they are an appropriate subject for inclusion in a class action bill. They are not. Federalizing these individual cases would delay the judicial process exponentially for persons suffering very real physical injuries such as the people injured by Vioxx.

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