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Article: Illinois Business Leaders Protest Class Action Lawsuit Abuse at Senate Hearing In Madison County.
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- PR Newswire
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- September 6, 2002
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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Illinois business leaders are gathering at an Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, IL to voice concerns about the economic harm and national embarrassment caused by class action lawsuit abuse in Madison County.
"Madison County has become a sort of free-fire zone for national class action lawsuits, in which actual transgressions or damages may be nil yet settlements are routinely approved that yield substantial plaintiff attorneys' fees but next to nothing for the supposedly victimized class," said Philip R. O'Connell, chairman of the Class Action Reform Task Force of the Illinois ...
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