Marron says he plans later this week to file a class suit against the firm making similar claims.
The Coleman team has said it will also file a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the absentee voters whose ballots were rejected.
His attorney, Ronald Marron, said he plans to file a class action charging Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) with similar wrongdoing.
The Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of 2005 expanded federal jurisdiction over class-action lawsuits primarily to reduce so-called "forum shopping, " where plaintiffs would look for the locale friendliest to class-action cases and then file in courts there.
Their new backers collectively own 13.4m News Corp Class A shares, which have fewer rights than Class B shares and do not allow them to file motions themselves.
That's because class action litigation depends on the economic incentives for lawyers to file the cases.
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As part of my job, I reported alarming inadequacies: in one case high-grade equipment (ASME III, class 1) was operated in nuclear power reactors with no accepted safety file, regardless of a previous accident and a half-dozen failures in achieving acceptable design results.
The court filing signed by Mr. Galanis includes his promise to avoid "acting as an officer or director of any issuer that has a class of securities registered" with the SEC or "that is required to file" financial reports with the agency.
He also co-sponsored a bill designed to cut down on malpractice litigation in 2005, and voted for the Class Action Fairness Act, a law that made it harder for trial lawyers to file some of their most lucrative cases.
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