That's a powerful incentive to settle, even when the claims are unlikely to stand up in court, as with Myers' attempt to establish a class of book readers who suffered the same loss from reading a book they later found out wasn't entirely true.

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Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that a Colorado constitutional amendment forbidding local gay rights legislation lacked a rational basis because it singled out gays, but he expressly declined to establish gays as a class that needs special antidiscrimination treatment.

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Greenwich tried to establish the lawsuit as a class action on behalf of all institutional investors.

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If their interpretation is correct, that would be exciting, as it would establish the existence of a new class of matter.

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Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), CLASS would establish a federally chartered long-term-care insurance program.

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The Sundial is a class, and instructors may establish policies and procedures regarding the content of classes.

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Independence came, or was won as in Algeria, and the ruling class in the Muslim world made a bid to establish political order and engage with tasks that Smith described.

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As journalists, we distance ourselves from our subjects to avoid biases and to maintain objectiveness, but the focus of our class is centered on narrative journalism, which allows the reporter to establish a closer relationship with the people we interview.

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The magazine was founded by Frederick Morgan and Joseph Bennett, two young men from Princeton University's class of 1943 who were encouraged by their teacher, poet Allen Tate, to establish a magazine.

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