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Hasnas reviews The Conservative Case for Class Actions by Brian T Fitzpatrick.

Those who classify themselves as liberal generally favor widespread use of class actions as a means of policing corporate misbehavior and protecting the individual worker or consumer against capitalist excesses. In this Essay, however, I take the counterintuitive position that while class action practice could conceivably be modified in ways that make it far more acceptable than it currently is, liberal political theory should be very skeptical of the modern class action device as it currently exists. Defining the foundation of liberal thought as a process-based belief in accountable democratic government and respect for the right of individuals to protect their rights by resort to the judicial process, I find that in all too many cases, the modern class action is substantially inconsistent with this liberal ideal. In their current form, class actions often serve as a means to deceptively alter existing substantive law through backdoor procedural transformation. This undermines both foundational premises of process-based liberalism.

Mr [Brian Fitzpatrick], a 25-year CFMEU veteran, claims he was told he would be killed after raising concerns about Mr [George Alex], whose company was granted a lucrative contract at Sydney's Barangaroo South project.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Tennessee Judicial Nominating Commission expires on Friday, June 28 and Brian T. Fitzpatrick Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University concludes in a white paper released today entitled Sunsetting the Tennessee Judicial Nominating Commission: What Now? that the selection of appellate judges and interim trial judges should continue uninterrupted when the commission expires.

Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) NSW president Rita Malia told the unions royal commission on Thursday there was no plan to kick Brian Fitzpatrick out of the union after the veteran official raised concerns about the union's support of a string of failed companies linked to Mr [Alex].

\"Within a couple of days, (Lis-Con manager Eoin) O'Neill called [Brian Parker] and wanted to set up a meeting to talk about peace,\" Mr [Brian Fitzpatrick] said. Mr Fitzpatrick said he received a call in March, 2013, where the enraged caller said: \"I don't care how many police you've got with you, I'm coming over there tomorrow and I'm going to kill you!\" The commission heard that when Mr Fitzpatrick told his boss, Mr Parker, about the threat, Mr Parker's alleged response was \"Well what can I do if two people don't like each other?\".