i want to just before introducing my friend and colleague, ted frank, for his remarks, want to frame this discussion a little bit for those of us in the audience who aren't attorneys, particularly those in the viewing television audience out there. class-action lawsuits. you take a bunch of claims, but certainly numerous clients that are similar in there and it took them all together into a single lawsuit. this has existed for some time now under u.s. law and its largely deemed a matter of judicial efficiency. it's cheaper to try similar cases in one large piece of litigation and individual separate cases that the cases are truly alike. the genesis of the modern class-action bar so to speak at modern class-action practice came about in the mid-60s but the 1966 revision of the rules of civil procedure that developed what is called the opt-out class-action before this point in time to join a class-action lawsuit, you had to affirmatively opt-in to the legal action. after this point in time, you have to ought to out of the legal action if he didn't so if so comedy are presumptively a me

one of the foremost is ted frank. there's also another gentleman that is published extensively on this topic. there have been various reform efforts, both legislative and through the judiciary. a subset of this litigation involves so-called fraud on the market that causes stock price to be overinflated and subsequently appalls when the fraud is exposed. falls when the fraud is exposed. a more comprehensive class action class -- class reform was passed in 2005. it was a jurisdictional shift. this was in reaction to research done by folks like professor brickman. it showed what was happening when you got state level courts giving class actions and making determinations that affected the national flow of commerce. some of the states were becoming magnet courts that were attracting a disproportionate, and in some cases, a large percentage of the class-action bar. those judges and juries tended to be favorable to the plaintiffs. a separate part of the reform was designed to eliminate coupon individuals got coupons instead

the one idea not feasible is to .lone ted frank but he is an american treasure. for those of you out there in the national television audience, how do they get in touch with you, ted, if they want to send you a case or send you a check? classactionfairness.org. here, if youou out have a bad notice in the mail on one of these or you think this is a problem and ted needs more than four lawyers to fight all the cases out there, give him some help. let's thank our panel. , mr. norton.an and again, those of you in the room who want credit, sign and return your evaluation form. thanks. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> coming up later today on the first religious affairs correspondent for the bbc talks about the connection between media and religion at a conference hosted by the university of colorado. that, the clinton foundation hosts a panel discussion about the abuse of prescription drugs by young people. among those beacon, patrick kennedy of rhode island. he spoke about his own strug

the one idea not feasible is to clone ted frank. but he is an american treasure. for those of you out there in the national television audience, how do they get in touch with you, ted, if they want to send you a case or send you a check? >> classactionfairness.org. >> those of you out here, if you have a bad notice in the mail on -- >> good morning, everybody. andnt to thank jack jacobs all the partners at safeway for having us here today at this busy distribution center where delivery trucks get everything from doritos to diapers where they need to go. way, i have a soft spot for safeway in my heart because some of you may know i went to high school and lived with my grandparents -- our main grocery store with safeway. [applause] outrandmother would send me to go shop at safeway and everybody treated me very well so i very much appreciate the good work you guys do. i want to thank all the workers and business people and labor leaders and environmental leaders were here today as we take another big step to grow our economy and reduce america's dependence on foreign

. >> all good ideas and the one idea that is not feasible unfortunately is too cloned ted frank but he is an american treasure. for those of you out there in a national television audience how did they get in touch with you ted if they want to send you a case or send you a check wax. >> well class-action fairness .org i think and class-action fairness@gmail.com. >> those of you out here if you got a bad notice in the mail where you just think this is a problem and ted needs more than for lawyers to fight all the cases out there give him some help. let's thank our panel wittman and lester brickman. [applause] those of you in the room who want cle credit sign out and turn in your evaluation form. thanks. [inaudible conversations] >> at the creation museum believes space upon the bible but we also teach people the difference between believes and what one can observe and experiment with and i believe we are teaching people to think critically and in right terms about science. i believe it's the creationists that should be educated -- educating the kids out there because we are teaching the

one of the foremost is here today with ted frank, one of the leading reformers in this area as well asprofessor brickman, who has published extensively on this topic. this criticism has led to various reform efforts, both legislative and through the judiciary. for instance, in congress, for securities class-action litigation, a subset of the litigation involving so-called effects on the market that cause stock prices to be overinflated and then subsequently it falls when exposed, that kind of litigation went through significant reform and then mid-1990's. litigationurities format was intended to clean up some of that kind of litigation. in some respects, it did. in other respects, there were unintended consequences of that litigation. a more comprehensive class-action reform at the federal level was passed in the middle of the last decade in 2005. it was the class action fairness act. it was a jurisdictional shift and was a reaction to research done i folks like professor brickman and the manhattan institute for legal policy showing what happen when you -- we havecourts separate state

frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. more on the weather in just a moment. we begin with breaking news out of berkeley. >>> kpix 5 has confirmed a cal football player has died. 21-year-old ted agu died during practice. >> the university confirmed a football player died this morning. his name is ted agu, a junior defensive lineman from bakersfield. they are not saying how he died. but teammates say he was staying up late to study and this morning, he was working out. he collapsed during the workout. we are still trying to get that information confirmed. the head coach here sonny dykes is saying that this is a tough time for the football family. he said ted was a great hard working guy. we'll have more information on this story at 5:00 and 6:00 this evening. i'm da lin, kpix 5. >> the university has scheduled a news conference for this afternoon to talk more about agu's death. >>> more breaking news in san francisco where two workers have been killed in an industrial accident. chopper 5 above the ggi granite on courtlandt avenue and bernal heights just after it happened. two men were unloading granite slaps when they were crushed under one of the slabs. not clear how it fell.

host: frank in houston, texas, republican caller. by the way, if tedz insists that any increase in the debt ceiling on the senate side requires 60 votes instead of the simple majority of 51, it will take 5 republicans to vote with the democrats to make that happen. kelly ayotte could be one of those votes. some consider her a moderate republican and some of these issues. let's go to frank in houston, texas. go ahead, frank could republican caller. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. representative boehner didn't have much choice after the shutdown could he didn't want to get burned again. personally, as a republican, i would've hoped that if they did go that far as to shut the government down, they should have kept it shut down. having said that, the young lady that called just a minute ago about -- mentioned obamacare. the dirty debt bill that boehner and the house of representatives have passed, obama is going to need that money because people who are getting on medicaid right now are going to find out that they are not eligible for m

way from joe kennedy warning frank sinatra to stay away from his son, jack, because the fbi had tapes. yeah, i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that, you know, tedg guy so a lot of the, you know, the conservative people who don't have any qualms at all about appearing with nicely tailored, nicely quaffed confederates are a little weary about hanging around with a wild man rocker in a loin cloth. >> they haven't been wary of it before, though. i think abbott thought -- abbott put this on the schedule. abbott is a guy who "a" is not facing any serious primary challenge. he did this for this small early voting event on the first day of the primary. i think he must have thought he was going to get away with it. >> i think he probably will. i think within the bubble, that is the conservative and republican politics now, there are more people who will think he is a brave fighter against political correctness than revolted by ted nugent. that's a sad thing to say, but i think that's what it is. >> do you think there's a kind of, i don't know, death wish is too strong a word. there's a kind of desire on the part of a certain segment of the conservative

ted shaw. thank you, gentlemen. appreciate it. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" begins now. >>> thanks to you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. barney frankth us in a minute. in 1985 a group called the parents music resource center tried to get congress to essentially come up with a labeling and/or censorship program for popular american music. we're having a bit of a moral panic at the time about kids these days and their degenerate music. so this parents group which was spearheaded by a bipartisan bunch including tipper gore and james baker's wife, susan baker, they formed this group and went after the music industry. there were these amazing congressional hearings in the '80s on this issue. where everybody from john denver, god bless him, to d. snyder of twisted sister turned out at these congressional hearings to talk about whether music really is pornography wi

ted shaw. thank you, gentlemen. appreciate it. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" begins now. >>> thanks to you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. barney frank is with us in a minute. in 1985 a group called the parents music resource center tried to get congress to essentially come up with a labeling and/or censorship program for popular american music. we're having a bit of a moral panic at the time about kids these days and their degenerate music. so this parents group which was spearheaded by a bipartisan bunch including tipper gore and james baker's wife, susan baker, they formed this group and went after the music industry. there were these amazing congressional hearings in the '80s on this issue. where everybody from john denver, god bless him, to d. snyder of twisted sister turned out at these congressional hearings to talk about whether music really is pornography without the pictures and whether it should be treated as such. frank zappa testified in congress against the labelling act in 1985, called it an ill conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver benefits to children and infringes on the civil liberties of people who ar