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Class action
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Class action
A legal complaint filed by a lawyer or group of lawyers for a group of petitioners with an identical grievance, often with an award proportionate to the number of shareholders involved.


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Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently refused to consider the merits of an appeal from an order dismissing a class-action complaint after deciding sua sponte that there was a question about whether federal subject-matter jurisdiction existed.
Under contract laws in many states, class-action bans are considered inherently unfair and courts, including those in California, where the dispute originated, can choose to not enforce them.
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