"That is simply how class actions work," he wrote.
How do group lawsuits or "class actions" work?
And class actions work, too.
Perhaps 20percentt of the firm's practice is class-action work for plaintiffs on contingency, meaning that the firm takes a portion of the amount clients receive, often from major corporations, as its fee.
Prior to joining Lambda Legal in October 2007, Schoettes spent four years litigating a wide variety of matters from the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins -- primarily working on class actions, employment discrimination, and political asylum cases.
The reality is that without this class action, the working women at Wal-Mart will never have their day in court and all working women across the country will lose".
For class actions to work as mechanisms for delivering justice and deterring corporate misbehavior, the defendant must be compelled to face the financial consequences inherent in compensating the actual number of people who have been harmed, no matter how many.
Wal-Mart, which says its policies expressly bar discrimination and promote diversity, said the women in the potential class action -- who worked in 3,400 stores in 170 job classifications -- could not possibly have enough in common to make class-action treatment appropriate.
I foresee a major class action suite in the works if this all goes down.
We hope we have shown that the 2009 settlement by federal Judge Stanwood Duval in a class action lawsuit that claimed sloppy work by the levee districts contributed to levee breaches in 2005 is neither proof of culpability nor acceptance of responsibility by the pre-Katrina levee districts.
A federal judge yesterday threw out the claims of 43 of 46 law firms seeking fees for preliminary work on the class action lawsuit by buyers and sellers against the Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses.
