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It’s a familiar story: a business makes a defective product or does something that harms a group of people. Such a “mass wrong” can be met with a class action. | It’s a familiar story: a business makes a defective product or does something that harms a group of people. Such a “mass wrong” can be met with a '''class action'''. | ||
==Understand the legal framework== | ==Understand the legal framework== | ||
===A class action is brought by an individual acting on behalf of a larger group=== | ===A class action is brought by an individual acting on behalf of a larger group=== | ||
A | A class action is a lawsuit that groups people with a common claim together against the same defendant. Otherwise, all the claims would be separate lawsuits. Mass production and marketing of consumer goods and services mean that a single mistake or wrongful act at any stage of design, production or distribution can harm many people in a similar way. A class action is one response to these injuries or losses (also called '''mass wrongs'''). | ||
Often, injured people won’t sue individually because the money they seek is less than their legal costs. And it’s often not practical for just one buyer of a defective product to sue a large business. But the total loss or damages suffered by many injured people or buyers may be very large. Class actions make lawsuits more affordable by allowing all the victims of a mass wrong to share the cost of a lawsuit. Class actions are mass-produced lawsuits for mass-produced wrongs. | Often, injured people won’t sue individually because the money they seek is less than their legal costs. And it’s often not practical for just one buyer of a defective product to sue a large business. But the total loss or damages suffered by many injured people or buyers may be very large. Class actions make lawsuits more affordable by allowing all the victims of a mass wrong to share the cost of a lawsuit. Class actions are mass-produced lawsuits for mass-produced wrongs. | ||
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:Web: [http://www.cba.org/Publications-Resources/Class-Action-Database cba.org] | :Web: [http://www.cba.org/Publications-Resources/Class-Action-Database cba.org] | ||
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