Sentence examples for all class actions from inspiring English sources
Since 1995 Weiss and Lerach have handled half of all class actions alleging securities fraud.
"It does not kill all class actions," says Alan Kaplinsky, a lawyer with Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia who pioneered the use of arbitration clauses in consumer finance contracts like credit-card agreements.
Nearly all class actions filed in Madison County have been settled out of court, and legal observers said the Philip Morris case was the first to be tried to a verdict.
In recent years, their restaurants have been caught up in a wave of lawsuits — almost all class action — alleging violations of labor laws regarding wages and overtime.
Nearly all class-action suits are brought on a contingency basis, which means that lawyers are paid a percentage of any recovery they obtain.
Legal Services is also barred from using public or private funds to engage in a range of activities, including all class-action lawsuits, any representation of immigrants who are in the country illegally and all litigation involving abortion-related matters.
And while I'm not a lawyer, if harm is caused to a power company's customers because this well-known and well-publicized flaw was finally exploited by bad guys, I'd bet the mother of all class-action lawsuits would be waiting on deck.
I'm surprised some lawyer hasn't offered to represent us all in a class action law suit.
What accounts for the high percentage that merger objection cases bear to the total of all securities class actions?
According to Woodruff-Sawyer, a San Francisco insurance company, Milberg Weiss initiates more than half of all shareholder class actions nationwide and eighty per cent in California, Lerach's base.
The Court of Appeals considered all covered class actions involving covered securities, whether precluded or not, to be removable under the Act, and for that reason thought the preclusion issue to be distinct from the jurisdictional issue of whether the case belonged in federal court at all.
