Want to book this week and every weekend here on cspan2. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today but is on the conservative case for class actions, a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanize this debate. We got three outstanding speakers, panelists, i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice, he has litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. You may have a sense for his position on match. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate and university of Virginia Law School which he was on the law review and he is also the author of a chapter in the popular guided series on [inaudible] so please welcome christopher. [applause] our next panelist is the professor himself who wrote the book, he is a graduate of notre dame where he is a runner up valedictorian but he did offer that when he went to Harvard Law School in one the diploma for being the top student to graduate in his class. He i
Popular runner guide series on 17 200 claims and constitutional law claims please welcome christopher torok. Our next panelist is the professor himself wrote the book, he is a graduate of notre dame where the was a runnerup valedictorian but the made up for that when he went to Harvard Law School and won the diploma for being top student to graduate in his class. He is, its a lot easier. A lot easier. And he has been a lawyer and a professor including back at harvard for a while, hes currently at vanderbilt and hes the author of this book. It makes a compelling case for the class action mechanism and we will hear from him and our moderator today is the judge of the ninth circuit. He is a graduate of, a korean immigrant i should start with came to this country and graduated from Ivy League Cornell and then also harvard lawschool. His classmates, magna cum laude and works at block tell, works at the associate white House Counsel i believe in a special counsel to the Judiciary Committee a
Actions including over 20 dismissals of classaction cases so you may have a sense of where his position is on that. Hes a graduate of georgetown and university of Virginia Law School where he is also the author of a chapter in the popular letter guide series on the claims. [applause] the next panelist is the professor that wrote the book. He is a graduate of notre dame. He made up for that when he went to graduate school and was the top graduate in his class. He makes a case into class action mechanism and we will hear more from him in just a b bit. [applause] we are going to have a great debate with experts on class actions. Brian and i were classmates in law school they are more libertarian. To write a book in support of classaction complaints. [laughter] thank you for that kind introduction. The reason i think conservatives should support class actions is because we have to ask ourselves what the alternative is. The alternative was told to us in an amicus brief filed by the United S
About diplomatic efforts to prevent further escalation of the conflict into the wider middle east. Rishi sunak welcomed King Abdullah to downing street today. The two leaders shaking hands on the doorstep of number 10, the leaders agreeing on the importance of taking measures to protect civilians in gaza, including british and jordanian. Dual citizens caught up in the violence. This comes after violence. This comes after a further round of crisis talks by World Leaders with others as they try to inject diplomacy into the conflict between israel and hamas. Now for government and hamas. Now for government flights carrying britains left israel today, two more expected to come tonight. Israel today, two more expected to come tonight. The foreign to come tonight. The Foreign Office telling british nationals in gaza to get ready in case the rafah Border Crossing with egypt is opened in the morning. Its is opened in the morning. Its currently the only route out of the territory. The foreign s
Several countries have been waiting in egypts Sinai Peninsula , pending a deal for peninsula, pending a deal for its Safe Delivery to gaza. Together with the evacuate of some foreign passport holders. Some foreign passport holders. As egypt said it had stepped up diplomatic efforts to break the impasse. But israeli troops are impasse. But israeli troops are massing at the gaza border in preparation in the north for an Israeli Ground assault and the Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, has vowed to demolish hamas and tony blinken said in cairo today, the us will continue to stand with israel. What were actually doing , what were actually doing, including the deployment of these Aircraft Carrier battle groups again , not to provoke groups again, not to provoke anyone, but to send a very clear message of deterrence that no one should do anything that widens this conflict in any way or that furthers aggression against israel from any other direction. Direction. Meanwhile, here at home, the