He is also the author of World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs, and the moderator of the Forum on World Class IT podcast series.

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Though Dr. Thrun could not help everyone that needed help, the class came with an online discussion forum, that allowed the students to help each other.

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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.

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Congress intended to make it more difficult for class actions to proceed in state courts, a forum the business community considered unfairly hospitable to plaintiffs.

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It is so powerful that participants at the 2012 World Economic Forum at Davos declared it a new class of economic asset, like currency or gold.

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And according to a panel of experts gathered here Wednesday at a forum sponsored by the Federalist Society, the number of class-action cases filed in state courts has dropped off dramatically.

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