The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a controversial legislative proposal that one legislator said would put class actions in a “straitjacket.”
The bill, as well as a separate proposal on joinder that also passed the House, is part of the largest tort reform push in more than a decade on Capitol Hill. The House was expected to pass the measures, but their future is less certain before the Senate.
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