While preparing for the inevitable lawsuits, Carnival should consider setting up a mass claims facility that could quickly evaluate and pay claims without the need for litigation.
Supporters of the mass claimed that the eucharist was a true sacrifice, while Zwingli claimed that it was a commemorative meal.
It's a love letter to the individuals who reject being part of a crowd, even when the masses claim to be doing something radical or different.
Masses claimed that the ad devalued real efforts at unification, by painting highly unrealistic (and borderline insensitive) scenes of a protest where a can of Pepsi (handed to an officer by Jenner herself) ends the conflict.
Earlier this month, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif). and U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass). claimed that a leaked confidential report shows that Edison and steam generator manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries were aware of defects in the design of the equipment and failed to make modifications in order to avoid triggering a license amendment process.
The government paid out £19.9m to settle the initial mass claim.
The latest mass claim was brought by lawyers for prisoners or ex-prisoners who were unable to vote in various elections between 2009 and 2011.
Merrill and another large brokerage firm, the Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, are in the latter stages of a protracted process to resolve mass claims of sex discrimination that were filed in the late 1990's.
Neither ruling automatically mean all self-employed drivers will receive worker rights, but unless the firms change the contractual arrangements, they would be left open to mass claims in the employment courts.
Other observers, like Joseph A. Grundfest, a professor at Stanford Law School, agree that the high-profile prosecutions come at a bad time for trial lawyers, especially with companies like Merck taking a harder line in recent suits over deaths linked to its drug Vioxx and with judges insisting that liability cases be tried individually, rather than as easier-to-negotiate mass claims.
