A 2006 case in which she allowed class-action lawsuits against Merrill Lynch suggested to some business lawyers that she was amenable to lawsuits against big corporations.
Only recently have some courts allowed class-action lawsuits by people without such contractual relationships, notably by people who sued tobacco companies because they were exposed to colleagues' second-hand smoke.
The set of allowed classes at the superclass level (the one-member set chlorinated hydrocarbon metabolism) should subsume the set of allowed classes at the base-assertion level (the one-member set 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol metabolism).
Figure 2 illustrates another real example where the set of allowed classes at the level of the supeclass has more than one member.
The set of allowed classes of is metabolized in at the level of chlorohydrocarbons is then obtained, which is the single class chlorinated hydrocarbon metabolism (which indicates that a chlorohydrocarbon can be metabolized in a chlorinated-hydrocarbon-metabolism process).
He said he would allow class action on lost pay only for those women who had demonstrated interest in promotions.
"When you allow class to become part of educational missions and enthusiasms you destroy something," says Broekman.
New legislation, he said, including rules that allow class action lawsuits would make it easier for banks to be challenged.
But Italy is debating similar legislation, and Britain, Germany and Spain, among others, already allow class actions in certain circumstances (see article).
