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Yawn. Wake me up when I can join a class action suit against lawyers who chase high profile cases, win mega payouts for themselves, and leave the harmed with $
by kjhughes 14y ago
Yawn.
Wake me up when I can join a class action suit against lawyers who chase high profile cases, win mega payouts for themselves, and leave the harmed with $1 checks or worthless discount vouchers.
I long ago stopped wasting time reading most class action lawsuit participation notices I receive.
- batista 14y ago>Wake me up when I can join a class action suit against lawyers who chase high profile cases, win mega payouts for themselves, and leave the harmed with $1 checks or worthless discount vouchers. This makes the assumption that the only reason to join a class action suits is to be compensated or make money. How about to punish the entity that did you harm and stop it from doing it in the future? I could not care less if I made $0 on such a class action, if the end result was that PayPal was forced to reconsider it's ways.
- malandrew 14y agoExactly. I have especially despised Paypal/eBay since they started doing this and I don't care that lawyers make tons of money on this so long as Paypal is punished and learns a lesson.
- kalininalex 14y agoMy impression is the primary purpose of class action lawsuits is to stop bad behavior, not necessarily to enrich plaintiffs. Lawyers do make quite a bit of money IF they win. They also take all the risks since class members don't pay anything for legal services upfront. So, class actions seem to be an important mechanism for correcting bad behavior of larger entities.