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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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Argentina dodged a class-action suit presented in New York by foreign bondholders after a U.
He may have a hard time convincing the courts to let him go ahead with a class-action suit, but that shouldn't stop the county from coming clean on whether it has properly refunded all the taxpayers it has overcharged.
District Court judge to dismiss a class-action suit filed by African American railroad workers across the country.
 
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