As part of their Contract with America, Republicans in Congress tried to shut the door on shareholder class actions against publicly traded companies in 1995. Many lawmakers at the time felt shareholders needed to learn to take losses when fickle markets dipped and not blame hard-working executives.
Since enactment of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, attorneys in the field say only about 12 cases have gone to trial in 15 years.
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