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>In a good legal system many small claims should be bought and then somebody could sue the company for money. This would be a superior version of a class action
by nommm-nommm 10y ago
>In a good legal system many small claims should be bought and then somebody could sue the company for money. This would be a superior version of a class action lawsuit. A version that is actually practical and would scale.
This exists, it's called small claims court.
- nickik 10y agoThat goes in the right direction but there are many problem that hinder it from scaling. A organisation can not buy millions of claims from consumers and the fight a full class action lawsuit without any of these people being involve.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoYou make no sense. If you want to sue CVS for selling you fake aloe go ahead, it costs less than $100 to file a small claims case in my state and CVS will very likely settle with you outside of court because it's cheaper than sending someone to court to defend the company.
- nickik 10y agoToday you can not buy up a hole group of claims and make a collective action suit on behave of the other people. That is not legal. There are many other problems with the courts that make the system I proposed currently impossible.
- dpark 10y agoIn what way is your proposal meaningfully different than a class action suit?
- nommm-nommm 10y agoClass action suits are actually legal.
- mzw_mzw 10y agoWhen you can buy and sell a legal action like that it strikes me as a super bad idea. Wouldn't there be some legal equivalent of the patent trolls who today purchase outdated patents and then go around filing nuisance suits based on them?