This is a settlement of a data security breach class action lawsuit with 130M class members.
Anybody else has to litigate every issue, while the Engle class members are spared much of the expense.
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The class members are then split into groups to do the same themselves.
The researchers said these risks could be reduced if teachers and schools made greater allowances for the youngest class members.
According to Forbes, class actions are no more than ways for attorneys to get rich at the expense of class members.
Previous class members mingle with candidates before their interviews in an effort to loosen everybody up and set a friendly tone.
All but two class members who ran for re-election won in 1976, but thereafter the game got rougher in a hurry.
The agreement sets up a two-tiered compensation system for potential class members.
Notice that absolutely no awards will be paid out to class members.
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In this case, the appeals judges said, the lower court approved the fees without knowing the relatively tiny payout to class members.
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But this should not lead to some being treated as second-class members.
Coupon settlements that benefit corporate defendants and enrich lawyers while giving little or nothing to class members are, increasingly, a thing of the past.
Judges who understand the law know it is their duty to inquire into the value of a settlement on behalf of absent class members.
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He says Posner substituted established rules that require all the class members to share similar complaints with a new, oversimplified doctrine that places efficiency above all else.
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Five more are under construction or approved by the J-Class Association, which requires class members to build the boats according to pre-1939 plans with a few allowable deviations.
Many of the class members have worked as sales reps.
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While a class action can have the virtue of assuring equal justice to all class members, it can also have the vice of binding them to something less than justice.
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She says the collective began with class members undertaking research projects in their free time, volunteers from outside of academia and professional cartoonists who came in to talk to the students.
Behrend decision, which instructed judges to take a closer look at the evidence plaintiffs plan to use in class actions to see whether all the class members can really claim similar damages.
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And, more and more over the last 20 years as watchdogs like Public Citizen and others have filed objections to bad settlements, courts have made good on their obligation to protect class members.
The competing lawyers convinced 435 class members to opt out of the settlement before U.S. District Judge Gary Lancaster invalidated the opt-outs and barred the lawyers from talking to class members any more.
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"We are not seeking damages, we're not seeking individual compensation for the class members, we're seeking a broad citywide injunction" against police stops that lack "reasonable, articulable suspicion, " said Darius Charney, the center's lead attorney.
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Doing so would create the least amount of competition for the first round of reimbursement claims, and would thus give class members in the reimbursement group the best chance at having their claims satisfied in full.
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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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The justices also questioned whether an arbitrator had the power to bind thousands of absent class members, each of whom had signed their own arbitration agreements, to a class action when they might not want to belong to one.
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And it also involves a judge who appears to have been so desperate to close the deal that he barred plaintiffs from opting out and prohibited competing lawyers from telling class members there might be more money on the table.
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We also remand with respect to the claims of putative class members who no longer worked for Wal-Mart when the complaint was filed so that the district court may consider whether to certify an additional class or classes under Rule 23(b)(3).
In a decision released on Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said the five software engineers suing Apple Inc, Google Inc and five other companies have yet to show enough in common among the proposed class members to allow them to sue together.
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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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In fact, I was among the first class of members, serving from 1995 to 1997.
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