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A lawsuit is a proceeding by a party or parties against another in the civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law" is found in only a small number of laws still in effect today. The term "lawsuit" is used in reference to a civil actio ...
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class actions
A class action, also known as a class-action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group. The class action ...
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Class action lawsuits
Lawsuits related to class action
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AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion'' , , contracts that exclude class action arbitration , , Supreme Court of the United States , , 2011
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SLUSA preempting state law class action claims , , Supreme Court of the United States , , 2006
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West v. Randall
''West v. Randall'' (29 F. Cas. 718 (R.I. 1820)) is one of the earliest class action lawsuits cases in the early United States under federal case law in which one individual was allowed to sue on behalf of a larger group. The decision was written ...
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See also
Class action lawyers
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William Lerach
William "Bill" Shannon Lerach (born March 14, 1946, Ohio River Valley, Midwestern United States) is an American disbarred lawyer who specialized in private Securities Class Action lawsuits. The $7.12 billion he obtained as the lead plaintiff's ...
(class action lawyer)
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Tim Misny (class action lawyer)
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David I. Shapiro (class action lawyer)
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Paul Sprenger
Paul C. Sprenger (September 8, 1940 – December 29, 2014) was an American attorney. Sprenger is best known as lead counsel of ''Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co.'', a discrimination case involving female iron miners in Minnesota.
Early life and ca ...
(lawyer representing employees in class actions)
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Harvey Thomas Strosberg
Harvey Thomas Strosberg, (born September 1, 1944) is a Canadian lawyer. He is a senior partner at the law firm of Strosberg, Sasso, Sutts LLP.
Early life
Harvey Strosberg was raised in Windsor, Ontario, and graduated from Kennedy Collegiate I ...
(Canadian class action lawyer)
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Ted Wells
Theodore V. "Ted" Wells, Jr. (born April 28, 1950) is an American lawyer who works in the field of criminal law. A litigation partner at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wells has been selected by the Nationa ...
(lawyer representing corporations in class actions)
Class action law firms
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Center for Class Action Fairness (law firm representing consumers in class actions)
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Edelson McGuire (law firm representing consumers in class actions)
Other persons involved in class actions
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William Hohri (class action lead plaintiff)
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Harry Kalven
Harry Kalven Jr. (September 11, 1914 – October 29, 1974) was an American jurist, regarded as one of the preeminent legal scholars of the 20th century. He was the Harry A. Bigelow Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, having ...
(American jurist, a pioneer in class action)
Legislation
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Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act
The American Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act (), also known as the Cheeseburger Bill, sought to protect producers and retailers of foods—such as McDonald's Corporation—from an increasing number of suits and class action ...
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Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (SLUSA), {{uspl, 105, 353, 112 Stat. 3227, is a federal legislative act in the United States regarding private class action lawsuits for securities fraud. SLUSA amended portions of the Securi ...
(in the US)
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Criticism of Coca-Cola#Racial discrimination
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Deepwater Horizon litigation
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Education Management Corporation#Securities fraud class action lawsuit dismissal
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EverBank#Lawsuit
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Intelius#Class action lawsuits
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PlayStation Network outage#Legal action against Sony
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R2C2#Class action lawsuit
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Raytheon#Securities litigation
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Resignation of Shirley Sherrod#Class action lawsuit
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Ringtone#Lawsuits
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RiverCity Motorway#Lawsuit
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Shannon, Quebec#Cancer cluster (in Canada)
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Shell Oil Company#Polybutylene lawsuit
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Singapore Power#Lawsuit
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Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy#Legal action
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Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois#Second class action lawsuit
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Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois#Third class-action lawsuit
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TD Ameritrade#Security breaches
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Tekelec#Shareholder class action lawsuit
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Tenaha, Texas#Class action
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Texas Youth Commission#ACLU lawsuit
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The Brick#Lawsuit
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The Chiari Institute#Lawsuits
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Thomas Jefferson School of Law#2011 class action lawsuit against TJSL
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Thomas M. Cooley Law School#Class action against Cooley
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True (dating service)#:0
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Tyrone Hayes#Class action lawsuit
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United Parcel Service#Employment actions
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Vartkes Yeghiayan#Class-action lawsuits
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References
External links
Judge certifies Wal-Mart class action - U.S. business- nbcnews.com
(Listing of racial discrimination class actions in the Federal government)
Wal-Mart will pay $40m to workers - The Boston Globe
(December 3, 2009)
(30 April 2010)
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Class action
A class action, also known as a class-action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group. The class actio ...