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A class action in such a situation centralizes all claims into one venue where a court can equitably divide the assets amongst all the plaintiffs if they win the case. Finally, a class action avoids the situation where different court rulings could create "incompatible standards" of conduct for the defendant to follow. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b ...
contracts that exclude class action arbitration: Supreme Court of the United States: 2011 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit: SLUSA preempting state law class action claims: Supreme Court of the United States: 2006 West v. Randall: required parties to class action: United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Usually, if you are part of a class involved in a class-action lawsuit, you don’t play any role in the suit until it is done. You just sit tight until the case goes to trial or settles.
United States class action case law (75 P) Pages in category "Class action lawsuits" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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 ...
Pages in category "United States class action case law" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A lawsuit may also involve issues of public law in the sense that the state is treated as if it were a private party in a civil case, either as a plaintiff with a civil cause of action to enforce certain laws or as a defendant in actions contesting the legality of the state's laws or seeking monetary damages for injuries caused by agents of the ...
A "naked" class action waiver is a version of the waiver where the contract in which the waiver is found is not attached to an arbitration agreement. Class action waivers are only protected from state legislatures' actions through the Federal Arbitration Act, if they are bundled with an agreement to send disputes to arbitration.