Class Action Suit

On a very general level, class action lawsuits involve a large group of people in some capacity: A collective class, formed together over the issue of a broken product, suing a defendant, or a group of defendants, individual negligent companies, for instance, being sued by or persons. While more class action suits are filed for product liability claims, other case types end up in court, too, including shareholders suing for corporate fraud, employees for discrimination, and residents over environmental disasters.

Each case, which may be filed in either federal or state court, class action has its pluses. Because a limited number of witnesses overlap, the trial process inevitably moves along faster, while the cost of litigation tends to be lower than for individual plaintiffs filing alone.

Additionally, these types of cases also tend to have drawbacks. Before the lawsuit even moves forward, the collective group must be defined as a class. Federal courts, as well, may dismiss class actions if the defendants are state governments or officials or if the plaintiffs number less than {one hundred,100.

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