In Dabit v Merrill Lynch the court made it harder to bring a class-action shareholder suit in a state court where an anti-company result is often likelier than in a federal court.
Dilma Rousseff was born in 1947 and grew up in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte, in the coffee-growing state of Minas Gerais.
Even upper-middle-class natives find themselves unable to afford houses in some parts of the city-state, such as Sentosa Cove, where more than 60 percent of the houses are owned by foreigners.
Saudi Shias feel they are treated as second-class citizens in a state that embodies a puritanical Sunni version of Islam.
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"We are tremendously excited to be creating a world-class studio in the state of Georgia and are looking forward to working with Pinewood in the many years to come, " said Jim Pace, managing partner of the investment group, River's Rock LLC.
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.
Indirect purchasers who in many cases actually paid the inflated prices are left to sue in state court, where the class-action attorneys have developed a specialized practice to extract an extra layer of revenue from this litigation.
Law has extensive experience playing first-class cricket in Australia having captained state side Queensland to three successive championships.
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The middle class expanded fast thanks to jobs in state-owned companies, the public education system and the bloated civil service.
The party that once relied for its votes on lower-middle-class state employees, especially in the south, is now arguing for privatisation.
In addition, recent federal court rulings limited damage settlements in the case, relegating plaintiffs to class-action remedies in the federal court system rather than by jury in the state courts.
Since AMD sued, 61 me-too class actions have been filed in state and federal courts.
World-class state companies can be found in almost every industry.
If Republicans want to avoid repeating this mistake, they will have to first and foremost push back against Democratic plans to turn Medicaid--the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor--into a middle-class entitlement by expanding eligibility in the name of covering the uninsured.
He still relishes the memory of beating his Penn State opponent in the 142-pound class all three times they grappled.
In place of racial preference, the top 20% of each high-school graduating class in Florida will automatically be admitted to a state university.
Born in 1968 in the town of Hisar in the northern state of Haryana to middle-class parents, Mr Kejriwal graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur with a degree in mechanical engineering.
In fact, Mr Hague has middle-class parents, went to an ordinary state school and is claimed to prefer a pint of beer.
Legislation passed two years ago that was designed to prevent class-action abuse has reduced the number of those types of cases filed in state courts, but it also seems to have placed unforeseen strains on the federal court system because the law was drafted so poorly, experts say.
At heart, he was still a state college kid who grew up in a lower-middle class home, the son of an electrician.
We are committed to working with the city and the state to make sure that we have world-class health facilities here in New Orleans.
The opposition is likely to retain control of at least two of Malaysia's 13 state legislatures and should perform well in urban constituencies where middle-class voters have clamored for change.
Today, too many kids in this city are living just a few El stops, sometimes even just a few blocks, from shiny skyscrapers and leafy parks and world-class museums and universities, yet all of that might as well be in a different state, even in a different continent.
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But parents at Waverley said it would have in effect turned the private school into a state-funded school with fees having to be scrapped and an increase in class sizes.
LivingSocial is in the midst of a class-action lawsuit that alleges that LivingSocial and a merchant partner offered vouchers with illegal expiration dates in violation of state and federal gift-card laws.
According to Bill Frey, a demographer at the Milken Institute in California, more than 1.6m people have left the state in the past decade, most of them middle-income and working-class whites.
Because the law encourages courts to hand class action work to firms with the biggest clients, lawyers are in an arms race to line up suit-happy state, local and union pension funds.
The "Safe to learn Safe to teach" class is free and lasts for six hours, just as extensive as a routine conceal-and-carry training course in the state.
In New York state, you must pass a written exam upon completion of a 10-hour class, after which you are required to buy a small game license and a turkey permit.
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