Sentence examples for class action as from inspiring English sources
"The removal of the class action as an issue in return for a nominal payment removes a cloud that has been hanging over the stock," said Richard Holloway, an outside spokesman for Parmalat.
Technically the suit is not a class action as there is no law on class actions in Austria.
The wider legal sticking point is over whether European courts will allow the bundling of similar claims into a formal class action — as Schrems has been hoping.
The Coalition Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP), which organized the march, hailed this class action as a first, since it is accusing Montreal police of violating the rights of protesters due to political profiling.
Outside of the United States: Class actions in different jurisdictions are dependent on the availability of the class action as a suitable way to bring a case to court.
Wall Street analysts have raised concerns about Aetna's ability to absorb the huge, money-losing health care unit of the Prudential Insurance Company, which it bought last August for roughly $1 billion, and to deal with a rash of lawsuits by lawyers who specialize in class actions as well as patients' rights bills in Congress that would make it easier to sue health insurers.
Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan of Federal District Court in Chicago said in a ruling Feb. 17 that the lawsuit could continue as a class action because as many as 50,000 United employees have a common claim that the committee acted against their interests by buying UAL stock while its financial situation deteriorated.
Without class actions as an option, "no attorney is going to take a securities fraud case for a chance to recover 30 percent of $10,000" in arbitration, Mr. Abshure said.
It's a cop-out, he says, to justify class actions as the solution to special-interest politics and a clunky legal system.
At the same time, and not for the purpose of helping bad actors get off a criminal hook, shouldn't the League look beyond its obvious goal of settling a pending class action lawsuit as cheaply as possible?
It became a much greater threat in 2006 when a judge granted it class action status, allowing as many as 100,000 former and current baristas to be represented.
