Originally Posted by koop

Actually just read a scary editorial somewhere that calls for the abolishment of fee shifting provisions of fed statutes that the ACLU and other citizens use.

For instence, an action brought for a civil rights violation under Sec 1983 provides for the prevailing plaintiff to collect attorney's fees. Same for the ADA and a host of other statutes (Fair Credit Reporting, Fair Debt Collection, Truth in Lending, Mag Moss ect)

Whoever wrote the article was arguing that if you cut out these fee provisions the ACLU won't take the cases. No mention of the fact that the ACLU is only getting these fees after they win and shown that someones civil rights have been violated.

And of course, by gutting these laws you get the fortunate side benefit of no other pesky consumers or citizens being able to use them.