In recent years, class-action lawsuits have been employed by workers -- particularly lower-wage workers -- as a substitute for the force that collective bargaining once held in an era of broader union representation: By banding together in large-scale lawsuits, workers have effectively organized themselves into unified, powerful voices, gaining leverage in negotiations with management.
The bottom lines are affected however by whether a large scale lawsuit is upheld or overturned".
He acknowledged that the approach, which he also used in a large-scale abuse lawsuit now weighing against the Diocese of Brooklyn, is untested in New York courts, but he said there was case law to support it in other states.
In three large-scale federal lawsuits challenging the program's constitutionality, the city's strategy has been to defend its position at trial.
are expected to introduce legislation in the Senate and House that would ensure workers' ability to bring large-scale class-action lawsuits against their employers.
Web giveaways increasingly come at a steep price, in the form of computer glitches, frustration and loss of privacy and security -- not to mention the threat of expensive lawsuits for large-scale music downloaders.
A1 More File-Sharing Lawsuits The Recording Industry Association sued 532 people it accuses of large-scale copyright infringement, its third round of lawsuits against music file sharers.
In recent years, American courts have heard lawsuits based on large-scale violations of human rights, including those that occur outside our borders.
Analysts and investors were shocked, although there had been some stockholder lawsuits challenging Mr. Scrushy's large-scale stock sales in the spring and summer.
Last week, the family of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose fatal shooting by a white police officer in August 2014 also sparked large-scale protests, agreed on a settlement in a lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri.
The labels had won the settlement in a lawsuit filed against LimeWire in 2006 for large-scale copyright infringement on LimeWire's peer-to-peer network.
