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You may complain that class-action lawyers get much more money than the plaintiffs, but that's the nature of class actions. They are meant for situations where
by alejohausner 9y ago
You may complain that class-action lawyers get much more money than the plaintiffs, but that's the nature of class actions. They are meant for situations where many indiviuals are harmed, but each harm is too small to justify the cost of a court case. So naturally the plaintiffs get small payouts: each of them suffered a small damage. And the lawyers get big payouts: they handled the paperwork of thousands of clients.
- akvadrako 9y agoI wasn't actually saying class actions are bad, but that it makes a workable political excuse.
- ambicapter 9y ago> They are meant for situations where many indiviuals are harmed, but each harm is too small to justify the cost of a court case. Don't they also get used for cases where (spitballing here) half a town gets cancer because the chemical plant in the area has been illegal dumping their effluents next door?
- howard941 9y agoThose cancer victims aren't getting coupons