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Resuscitating Erin Brockovich after the BP Oil Spill: Carving Out an Exception to the Class Action Fairness Act for Environmental Disaster Suits
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cohen, Drew F. |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | When President George W. Bush pushed the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) through Congress in 2005, environmentalists lamented the demise of one of the last robust incentives for energy companies to develop meaningful safeguards against environmental disasters. At the time the bill was passed, one headline presciently read, "Erin Brockovich, Drop Dead," while another referred to it as the, "Class Action-Unfairness," Act. In recent months, residents on the Gulf of Mexico have brought well over 200 lawsuits related to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and subsequent oil spill. Many of them were class action suits that were required, pursuant to CAFA, to be filed in federal district courts. Instead of waiting years for claims to be processed in federal courts, Congress should revisit CAFA and create an exemption for environmental disaster class actions. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://gwjeel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2-1-cohen.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
