Fw: WEBSITE LINK for ALERT! on Class Action Suits

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If you are at all interested in preserving your rights to get involved in any future class action suits regarding saline breast implants (I have no idea if there will ever be such a thing, but I am hoping so!), please take action on this!

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Subject: WEBSITE LINK for ALERT! on Class Action Suits

The corporate assault on the ability of consumers and workers to bring class action lawsuits comes to a head this week.

The U.S. House will vote on H.R. 1115, which would effectively revoke the class action rules in every state by sending class action cases to federal court. The Senate is expected to vote on a similar bill (S. 274) in coming weeks.

Defendants believe they will have a huge advantage over consumers in federal court. There it is harder to get a case approved for consideration, federal judges are more conservative in interpreting the law, and crowded court dockets will delay justice for months if not years.

That's why America's biggest companies and industries - insurance, banking, pharmaceutical, tobacco, auto, HMOs and more - are furiously lobbying for this legislation.

We need you to furiously lobby against this legislation!

Just click here to send a fax to your Representative:

http://www.citizen.org/fax/background.cfm?ID=176 & source=2

Just click here to send a fax to your Senators:

http://www.citizen.org/fax/background.cfm?ID=177 & source=2

Please also forward this message to your friends, family and activist networks! It makes your voice louder.

Public Citizen

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