California's legal newspaper, The Recorder, reported on Tuesday on the defeat in the state legislature of a bill that would have banned contracts that bar class action claims. According to the article, the bill's sponsor will keep trying. Read "Legislation to Blunt 'Concepcion' Is Killed in State Assembly."
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