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What about class action? Could you make a class action against those who have sold your information?
by TrinaryWorksToo 10y ago
What about class action? Could you make a class action against those who have sold your information?
- dsp1234 10y agoA class action is an action where there are a large, possibly unknown, number of plaintiffs suing a single group of named defendants. With the thought process being that if a single case against a named defendant is won, then that same outcome would happen for every other plaintiff, and thus doing it once saves the court time. What you're suggesting is more like a John Doe case where you sue a number of unknown entities, and that can be won, but at some point, the plaintiff has to name the John Does, so that they can defend themselves.
- logfromblammo 10y agoCouldn't you start a class action against one named defendant, and use the discovery process to uncover all the other unknown-at-the-time-of-filing defendants? I'm pretty sure that if the named defendant coughs up an NDA that prevents them from disclosing the names of their business associates to a court, the judge is not just going to say, "I'll allow it."
- justin66 10y agoIt has successfully been done in the past, so yes, you could do that.