Current Class Action Lawsuits

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

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

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

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CURRENT CLASS ACTIONS AND CLASS ACTION NEWS The purpose of this site is to try and shed some light on the subject of and provide information on CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS.