[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3281]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 12:06 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 2341. An act to amend the procedures that apply to 
     consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer 
     outcomes for class members and defendants, to outlaw certain 
     practices that provide inadequate settlements for class 
     members, to assure that attorneys do not receive a 
     disproportionate amount of settlements at the expense of 
     class members, to provide for clearer and simpler information 
     in class action settlement notices, to assure prompt 
     consideration of interstate class actions, to amend title 28, 
     United States Code, to allow the application of the 
     principles of Federal diversity jurisdiction to interstate 
     class actions, and for other purposes.

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