Afternoon Briefs: Missing ex-lawyer is arrested at thrift store; DC considers banning gay-panic defense

The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017, which suggests many changes aimed at reducing class-action lawsuits, was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday. One of its major provisions would require federal courts to deny class-action certification unless every one of the proposed class members was affirmatively demonstrated to have “suffered the…