The Louisiana case had already been certified as a class and proceeded to verdict.
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Greenwich tried to establish the lawsuit as a class action on behalf of all institutional investors.
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Mark Leonard and Shirley were also charged with conspiracy to commit arson as a Class B felony.
But Merck researchers today referred to the Vioxx issue as a class effect.
Zipursky said the lawsuit stresses that consumers were harmed financially, so it could get approved as a class action.
We started BizRate in 1996 out of Wharton as a class project.
Five years ago a student would never dream of creating a video and streaming it online as a class project--and now it's increasingly the norm.
Perhaps just the reverse, given that Mr Gore, to distance himself from Mr Clinton, has chosen to bash big business and to pose as a class-warrior.
The appeals court also dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that the smokers did not have enough in common for it to qualify as a class action.
But, as elsewhere, it is actually a welfare program in which potential beneficiaries, as a class, pay only a small fraction of cost and are subsidized by non-potential beneficiaries.
Most are structured as a class action, meaning that the ones that gain legal traction will automatically include institutions with similar issues, an approach that dramatically increases the stakes.
The suit was originally filed against the company in 1993 in a New York court as a class action suit, primarily on behalf of the private citizens affected by the pollution.
The high court will decide only whether to handle the original lawsuit as a class action, instead of lower courts potentially being flooded with thousands of individual discrimination claims against the company.
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That typically happens as soon as a case is filed, and then again after the court certifies it as a class action and the defense requires the plaintiffs to supply facts supporting their case.
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Evisors began in 2009 as a project at Harvard Business School, where Fredrik Maroe, son of a Norwegian oil company executive, teamed up with three other students to start the site as a class project.
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The majority relied on the idea that the plaintiff still had an interest in the case because if it continued as a class action the plaintiff could spread the legal costs across a larger group.
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In addition to two counts of felony murder, the accused are charged with conspiracy to commit arson, 12 counts of arson as a Class A felony and 33 counts of arson as a Class B felony.
The Askernish controversy has been portrayed as a class conflict, between struggling crofters and wealthy golfers, but the distinction makes no sense on South Uist, since virtually everyone on the island has at least one croft.
Now the Fed can do it to stocks as a class in the name of an objective as trivial as keeping most of the schmoes employed, adding insult to injury by leaving your fund trailing the market.
Pamela Fox, a 22-year-old computer science grad student who builds Amazon mashups for fun, recently did a mashup of maps and corporate data for Chevron as a class project--crunching what would be a weeks-long project into one hour of mashing.
Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that a Colorado constitutional amendment forbidding local gay rights legislation lacked a rational basis because it singled out gays, but he expressly declined to establish gays as a class that needs special antidiscrimination treatment.
That's some pretty damning stuff, but the case isn't anywhere near resolution yet -- the judge has yet to decide whether to certify it as a class action, which looks like it'll depend on a technical reading of what exactly Microsoft was advertising throughout the Vista Capable program.
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Zen Bound 2 is as artful as a museum and as challenging as a sculpture class.
While there is no standard definition for what qualifies as Class A, Class B and Class C commercial office buildings, the vast majority of definitions used consider the following criteria: age, location, building infrastructure and ownership.
Mr Thurso stressed that it was important there was "no conflict between Parliament as a working institution and the Palace as a world class visitor attraction".
Jeff Skoll, a billionaire thanks to his ground-floor shares of eBay, writes about how as a middle class kid in Canada he grew up wanting to be a writer who told stories that make a difference in the world.
W. Scripps Co. (nyse: SSP - news - people ), are all insulated from unsolicited offers because they each have one class of voting shares held only by the families, as well as a separate class of nonvoting stock distributed to the public.
It will serve as a world-class broadcast antenna and also as a beacon to ward off aircraft.
One way to fan that fire is to continue treating the banks as a privileged class.
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Lines will be open until midday today and will cost about the same as a second class stamp.
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