Speech #1090051019

This amendment will provide our Federal court system with the resources they need to manage the surge of complex litigation that they will receive as a result of the recently enacted Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. The administrative office of the U.S. courts has projected that as many as 300 complex class action lawsuits will be moved out of State courts and into Federal courts as a result of this new law. at an estimated cost of $23.000 per case for a total cost of $6.9 million. Federal courts are already burdened with a huge docket of criminal and immigration cases. Failure to increase funding for Federal courts to account for the increase in complicated class actions that will flow from the Class Action Fairness Act will drastically delay the judicial process for thousands of plaintiffs and defendants seeking civil redress in our Federal courts. The Senate has already recognized this need.