Bush Enacts Law to Limit Class-Action Suits

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Published February 18, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

President Bush signs a new law that would make it harder for trial lawyers to file class-action lawsuits, many of which the president sees as frivolous. The law would move many of the suits to federal courts.

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