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That’s where class-action lawsuits come in. If tens of thousands of people lost $50 each, an attorney might be able to file a class-action lawsuit for the entire class.
The parties litigated the case on the premise that Guarnieri's grievances and lawsuit are petitions protected by the Petition Clause. This Court's precedents confirm that the Petition Clause protects the right of individuals to appeal to courts and other forums established by the government for resolution of legal disputes. ...
Grant House and Sedona Prince v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al. is a class action lawsuit brought against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and five collegiate athletic conferences in which the NCAA agreed to allow its member institutions to distribute funds to Division I athletes who have played since 2016.
The settlement features three main parts: (1) nearly $2.8 billion in backpay to former athletes (mostly who played in 2016-2021) distributed over a 10-year period through reductions in NCAA and ...
In the United States, the class representative, also called a lead plaintiff, named plaintiff, or representative plaintiff, is the named party in a class-action lawsuit. [66] Although the class representative is named as a party to the litigation, the court must approve the class representative when it certifies the lawsuit as a class action.
Many of these cases have lead to class action lawsuits and proceedings by the Federal Trade Commision (FTC), resulting in a number of settlements worth millions — or even billions — of dollars ...
O'Bannon v. NCAA, 802 F.3d 1049 (9th Cir. 2015), was an antitrust class action lawsuit filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The lawsuit, which former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon filed on behalf of the NCAA's Division I football and men's basketball players, challenged the organization's use of the images and the likenesses of its former student athletes for ...
The U.S. Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(d), 1453, 1711–15, expanded federal subject-matter jurisdiction over many large class action lawsuits and mass actions in the United States. The bill was the first major piece of legislation of the second term of the Bush Administration.