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While a fair and effective legal system allows business leaders to focus on hiring, innovating, and expanding, excessive or frivolous litigation crushes opportunities for private industry and consumers alike. A healthy legal system protects both employees and consumers while encouraging business growth.
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The average payout for consumers in class action lawsuits is about $32 while the average plaintiff’s lawyer pockets $1 million.
The CFPB wants to stop the use of an efficient, cost-effective dispute resolution tool for consumers and businesses.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lisa A. Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), and David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC), issued the following statement today following House passage of H.J. Res. 111, disapproving of the CFPB’s arbitration rule:
The Chamber is encouraged by the self-driving vehicle legislation, and we hope to work with the Committee moving forward to ensure innovation and development are not stifled as a result of inconsistent state liability rules and entrepreneurial plaintiffs lawyers.
TO MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) urges you to support H.J. Res. 111, which would undo a rule left over by the Obama Administration and recently finalized by an out of control Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The Chamber will consider including votes on, or in relation to, this bill in our annual How They Voted scorecard.
After two years of waiting, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its anti-arbitration rule last week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lisa A. Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), and David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC), issued the following statement today on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) final rule to effectively prohibit class action waivers in consumer financial services contracts:
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This letter, and the two attachments, were sent to the members of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice in advance of the Subcommittee holding a hearing today entitled “Examining Ethical Responsibilities Regarding Attorney Advertising.”
New innovations and technologies are fertile ground for economic growth. They lead to startup companies, job creation, and a rush of capital and investment. But once a technology gets big, it’s never long before government regulators and aggressive trial lawyers swoop in to crash the party. Hasty regulations and expansive liability stunt the sector’s growth and slam the brakes on job creation.