The class-action bill would open a happy hunting preserve to ambitious lawyers with a quick eye for the plump bird. They are not likely to be much concerned with fraud in the ghetto: No money there. But has a major manufacturer gotten a little too exuberant in his advertising? Has he promised a ‘benefit’ that may not be fully deliverable? Well, then, let us find 10 customers ready to say they’ve been damaged, and let us sue in the name of 10,000 more.
“Consumer-Action Bill Would Help the Lawyers,” by James Kilpatrick, Chamber of Commerce Newsletter. Papers of Chamber of Commerce, Series II, Box 3, Hagley Museum. August, 1970.
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