Perhaps more important is the fact that some very well off individuals seem happy to spend their own money in opposition to their class interests.
And are you going to elect somebody who has consistently fought for middle-class, working-class interests, as you heard the President say, or somebody who campaigns as an independent and has voted 96 percent of the time with Republicans in the state Senate?
The new idea is to bundle them, creating an asset class that interests a wider range of investors.
If so, they hold one kind of middle-class economic interests.
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For Obama, that means depicting the former Massachusetts governor as a champion of the wealthy class and special interests.
That was an unethical conflict, the judge said, since that gave the class reps, who are supposed to safeguard the interests of absent class members, a financial disincentive to push their lawyers to achieve a more lucrative settlement.
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Collusion may not always be evident on the face of a settlement, and courts therefore must be particularly vigilant not only for explicit collusion, but also for more subtle signs that class counsel have allowed pursuit of their own self-interests and that of certain class members to infect the negotiations.
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Instead of handing the lucrative work to the first law firm that filed a case, judges were supposed to appoint the combination of plaintiff and law firm that best represented the interests of the class.
Compared with the poor and the rich, the middle class contains a greater range of interests.
Afscme officials say Ms. Raimondo's alliance with the Arnolds shows she is out of step with the interests of working-class Rhode Islanders.
The Supreme Court could use this case to revisit the question of whether class actions are driven by the interests of real plaintiffs with real monetary claims, or lawyers interested in a big fee.
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In federal courts, such certification must generally follow well-established principles to ensure a lawsuit would not become so large as to be impracticable, and would allow the parties to fairly represent the common interests of the larger class of plaintiffs.
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Their Democratic party was sustained by appealing to the economic interests of working and middle-class Americans.
Mr Clinton's big idea for the Democrats was to move from the left into the centre of politics, concentrate on the aspirations of the middle class, and cast off ties to special interests, especially trade unions.
Cheryl Gillan banned first class travel for staff in the department which represents Welsh interests in the UK government.
The Special Committee and Clearwire will pursue the course of action that is in the best interests of Clearwire's non-Sprint Class A stockholders.
And it is a good antidote to an undue emphasis on interests, which (notwithstanding the new middle class) leads some people to predict that the state will be difficult to roll back further.
Senate Republicans, despite overwhelming support across the country from Republicans and Democrats, attorneys general, decided to block this nominee and prevent middle-class Americans from having a watchdog looking out for their interests here in Washington.
The Class Action Fairness Act was intended to prevent what business interests have described as the gaming of the legal system by plaintiffs' lawyers to drag out lawsuits and make fighting them so expensive that companies would rather settle than continue in court.
Yes, Boehner has spent far too many years cozying up to Wall Street and protecting the interests of big business at the expense of the middle class.
By joining the Tufts network and entering groups devoted to the class of 2011, he found it easy to identify others with similar interests.
At the same time, over the past six and a half years, the special interests have had a field day at the expense of the middle class and hard-working families.
That's not to talk about any previous administration, except for quite some time the middle class has thought that Washington was looking out for Washington and the big special interests, and not looking out for them.
During her campaign, Warren vowed to be a champion for what she characterized as a besieged middle class preyed upon by big banks, Wall Street CEOs, predatory lenders and other well-heeled special interests.
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