Sentence examples for pursuing a class from inspiring English sources

Supreme Court precedent also requires lawyers pursuing a class action to identify the common policy that they say led to unlawful discrimination.

Residents of the Dutch city of Groningen are pursuing a class action suit against Shell and ExxonMobil for tremors associated with gas drilling which they say have damaged thousands of homes.

But he added that it was unclear how many people were damaged in this way and if they could be identified -- which made pursuing a class action case problematic.

*We continue to believe that a consumer is better off pursuing a claim under our arbitration clause, rather than pursuing a class action.

(The two are pursuing a class-action lawsuit against the company).

But one reason the plaintiffs may be pursuing a class-action suit, he said, is that when those types of suits succeed, the defendant often pays the lawyers' fees.

"This is a groundbreaking first step towards justice," said Beatrice Lindstrom of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), which is pursuing a class-action lawsuit against the UN to try to force it to accept responsibility for the disaster and to pay compensation.

Scott D. Sullivan, WorldCom's chief financial officer during the peak expansion years, is scheduled to go to trial Feb. 4 in New York on federal criminal securities fraud charges; he and Mr. Ebbers also face state criminal fraud complaints in Oklahoma, and former shareholders in the original MCI are pursuing a class-action fraud suit.

The ACLU is currently pursuing a class-action lawsuit involving cases like Moe's, but a judge has yet to rule on whether it can proceed.

Although Cheney is not named as an individual defendant in the suit, Halliburton shareholders are pursuing a class-action lawsuit alleging that the corporation artificially inflated its stock price during this period.

On Wednesday, Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein said he would rule July 5 whether the lawyers for the battered women could pursue a class action against the city, which would include Mrs. Udoh's case.