Lead plaintiffs are supposed to hire attorneys and oversee the litigation on behalf of the rest of the class, although in practice it usually works the other way around, with the lawyers using portfolio-monitoring software to identify an institutional investor with a loss and then recruiting that investor to represent the class.
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And as we address our ongoing fiscal challenges, I will continue to fight every day on behalf of the middle class and all those fighting to get into the middle class to forge an economy that grows from the middle out, not from the top down.
It reflects the kind of sentiment that is driving the demand that Washington take action on behalf of middle-class Americans.
The victory of Carlos Ocariz, of the centre-right Justice First party, in the sprawling slums of eastern Caracas, is particularly painful for a government that claims to be fighting a class war on behalf of the poor.
So you can see how all the Washington chest thumpers on behalf of middle class families might want to start their ill-advised belt-tightening right here, by targeting the one stimulus measure most directly tied to jobs.
The Coleman team has said it will also file a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the absentee voters whose ballots were rejected.
In that case the court rejected a class action on behalf of millions of female Wal-Mart employees, saying the differences among them made it impossible for a single jury to decide whether Wal-Mart had discriminated against women.
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The suit was originally filed against the company in 1993 in a New York court as a class action suit, primarily on behalf of the private citizens affected by the pollution.
Like Uber, the suits against GrubHub and DoorDash are class actions while the demand arbitration request with Caviar is on behalf of a single driver.
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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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The plaintiff, Dmitriy Shirokov, is seeking to make the case a class action on behalf of 4, 577 people who, like Shirokov, received threatening letters for having allegedly downloaded copies of Far Cry, an action-adventure movie originally released in Canada in the summer of 2007 and in the U.S. in December 2008.
You hear what he says, you hear the argument he makes on behalf of middle-class Americans and where we need to take this country and, as a substantive policy argument, why we cannot embrace policy proposals that, in the kindest possible light -- according to the Tax Policy Center -- would, if implemented, result in massive tax breaks -- tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires paid for by middle-class families.
Greenwich tried to establish the lawsuit as a class action on behalf of all institutional investors.
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The EEOC brought a class action on behalf of approximately 70 Filipino-American workers.
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One of the biggest impacts may come in employment law, where class-action attorneys are pressing lawsuits on behalf of thousands and even millions of employees over wages, hours, discrimination and working conditions.
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It was Posner who famously said in a 1995 decision that certifying a class on behalf of millions of consumers could be the equivalent of handing the plaintiffs a victory.
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The denial is still striking, however, since in Wal-Mart the court struck down a class action on behalf of 1.5 million women who lawyers said all had suffered sex discrimination.
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Milberg is also preparing to bring its own class-action suit against the prime brokers on behalf of hedge funds, which also believe they are being overcharged or charged for services not provided.
Lawyers could assemble a class action on behalf of everyone who bought a product by claiming the manufacturer violated some law in making or advertising it.
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Two California law firms filed lawsuits seeking class-action status on behalf of stockholders this week, taking the company to task for allegedly concealing threats to its business and sales growth, such as Facebook platform changes that made it easier for users to find rival games.
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Wal-Mart, in which the Supreme Court must decide whether lawyers can maintain a class on behalf of 1 million female employees of Wal-Mart who they say all suffered some measure of discrimination in pay and promotion.
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Under a 1996 law, the lead plaintiff in securities class actions is supposed to negotiate fees on behalf of other shareholders.
It is noteworthy that Crest is acting in its own behalf and not as the leader of a class action which imposes various obligations on it which it has chosen not to undertake.
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In Oxford, the judges must decide whether an arbitrator was out of line by allowing a class action to proceed on behalf of some 20, 000 doctors even though there was no provision for class actions in the arbitration agreement between doctors and Oxford.
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He works 20 hours a day, often, on behalf of the American people and this President to try to advance an economic agenda that helps middle-class Americans, average Americans.
That theory allows lawyers to bring class actions on behalf of all investors who bought a stock during a given period on the assumption that any misrepresentations are priced into the stock and investors rely on the price when they decide whether or not to buy.
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The suit, filed Jan. 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by Chicago personal injury lawyers Ribbeck Lawchartered, is a class action by Gary Lobatan on behalf of at least 4, 200 passengers and crewmembers on board the Costa Concordia when it went aground near Giglio, Italy.
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Class-action lawyers hate the FAA because it makes it harder for them to sue on behalf of large classes of consumers since defendants can argue each plaintiff must pursue a remedy in arbitration instead.
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