[xm177e2]

The bill also would curtail the payment of tiny awards -- in some cases, coupons of small value -- to consumer plaintiffs while their attorneys walk away with massive payments.

Translation: companies will be able to get away with small abuses scot-free (what attorneys are going to take cases involving small damages to large numbers of people, if they can't get paid?)

So small abuses (on a large scale) will become common. Companies will screw you in small ways on a regular basis, because they can get away with it. Does that sound like "reform?"

The government has no right to interfere with our right to file lawsuits by preventing us from paying our lawyers!

[ccmay]

what attorneys are going to take cases involving small damages to large numbers of people, if they can't get paid?

If it's a real abuse, maybe some fancy pants lawyers will consider it pro bono.

If not, I don't really care. Anything that undermines the legal extortion industry is OK by me.

-ccm