The Class Action Fairness Act of 2003 will deny consumers access to adequate redress against corporate wrongdoers and will undermine the ability of state courts to hear cases primarily concerned with their own citizens. While class actions are an important and efficient legal tool for consumers to use in order to obtain redress from wrong doing, we are concerned about abuses of the class action process and agree that these abuses should be curtailed. However, S. 274 will not eliminate these abuses, but rather would create barriers to a consumer’s effort to obtain redress. S. 274 is unfair to consumers and we urge you to oppose it.
