The offense, to be sure, is but a class C misdemeanor, a minor offense in the Texas legal system.
But a class action against McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) on behalf of overweight kids is pending in U.S. district court--and is scaring the bejesus out of the food industry.
But filing a class-action suit was one way of avoiding the self-regulatory route.
At a small but compact class in a northern suburb of Mumbai (Bombay) about 20 of the 5, 000 dabbawallahs have gathered for the first class.
Donaldson was quick to reassure audiences that Drawing Julia was neither a narcissistic comment, nor a life drawing class, but a chance to chat about how some of her best-known books were brought to life through the efforts of Axel Scheffler, Nick Sharratt and David Roberts.
The system is inefficient, but it supports a class of professional writers, which might not otherwise exist.
Webber was punished for colliding with Brawn's Rubens Barrichello at the start but was in a class of his own to dominate the race despite his handicap.
So with a game like Counter-Strike you have lots of calculation but not a lot of class variation.
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Budgeting for unanticipated expenses, she rents a cute but modest apartment in a middle-class neighborhood.
She came from a working-class family, but won a free place at Vassar College, then got a job typing scripts for a radio company and decided she could write better ones.
Nelson is meant to clue you in on a book's context by providing online commentary, fact-checking, and statistics about cultural impact, which is great when you're studying global warming for a class, perhaps, but seems a little over the top if you're curling up with the latest Left Behind novel.
Harrison generously paid tribute to Rogan "for taking the fight with me" but insisted he was a class above his opponent.
But building a world-class military is still going to be a challenge.
It's true that Jo' burg has a growing black middle class, but it also has a growing divide between its haves and have-nots.
Soderling twice kept his composure when serving to stay in the set but Federer was in a class of his own during the tie-break.
But a 5th major would throw him in a class with Byron Nelson and the recently departed Seve Ballesteros while shrinking the afore-mentioned list to 12.
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This has been the best approach with consumer cases where the individual harm is small, but egregious, so a class action was necessary to right this wrong.
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As an example, they point to the emergence of a small but growing class of Dalit (formerly known as untouchables, the lowest in India's wretched caste hierarchy) millionaires.
The argument that despite the NASA report some other defect caused a crash might fly in front of the right jury in an individual case, Twerski said, but not necessarily for a class action.
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The jobs are physically based in Wisconsin but there is a virtual class component as well, which has been used by vets from San Francisco to Pittsburg to New York, Weichert said.
In Greenville (South Carolina) there are no NFL teams but there is Class A baseball team, the Greenville Drive (affiliate of the Boston Red Sox) and in less than a two hour drive you could see the Atlanta Falcons or the Carolina Panthers .
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Obama is arguing for his activist agenda not on the basis of class consciousness, which is alien to America, but as a defense of middle-class morality, which is central to it.
In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.
We know he has got a big boot and he is a class player, but I am sure we can move him around a bit.
Many of these international students come to our country in search of not only a world-class education, but also to find a career where they can apply their skills and experiences within the U.S. Many firms are in need of the skills and talents these international students possess.
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He planned to start a gym franchise, but after a free 13-week entrepreneurship class at Robert Morris University, paid for by the federally funded Veterans Business Outreach Center in Pittsburgh, he quickly found out the numbers didn't add up.
Inverse ETFs offer a way for investors to bet on a fall in an asset class but they may not always deliver such a return over an extended period.
It's not clear whether they have any actual shareholders on board yet (or at least any willing to serve as lead plaintiff), but a law firm in New York has filed a class action shareholders suit against Sierra alleging that the company's introduction of the Voq was so bungled and incompetent that they violated their responsibilities to shareholders.
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