How to Use class action in a Sentence
class action
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Zoom users may be in line for a payout through a class action settlement.
— Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 14 Dec. 2021 -
The complaint says the putative class action is worth more than $5 million.
— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Oct. 2024 -
As a class action, other employees are eligible to join the suit as plaintiffs.
— oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2021 -
So there's a law firm in Seattle that has mounted a lot of very famous successful class action suits against large wrongdoers.
— Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024 -
Google asked the court to toss out the class action lawsuit, but the request was denied by Koh in March 2021.
— Johan Moreno, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022 -
In the meantime, other First Nations groups filed class action lawsuits against the government on similar grounds.
— New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022 -
The last few years have seen a transformation in class action and collective action litigation involving workplace issues.
— Edward Segal, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022 -
The lawsuit is seeking class action status to represent thousands of Rohingya refugees who have resettled in the U.S.
— Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022 -
Investors participating in the class action claim they were misled, and the celebrities were artificially inflating the token’s price.
— David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022 -
And what, what the, the plaintiffs seek to be a class action.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 June 2022 -
Phone leasing programs and their opaque terms of service have also resulted in other legal actions (for example, Sprint is facing a class action suit over similar issues).
— Julia Ticona, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021 -
Starbucks will also have to face many of the claims brought against it in the class action.
— Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023 -
In short order, Ms. Sims joined Milberg, one of the largest class action firms in the world.
— David Gelles Erin Schaff, New York Times, 19 July 2023 -
Now, Rasella wants payback—in the form of a class action suit.
— Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 13 Apr. 2022 -
The class action now amounts to two dozen plaintiffs and growing, Nouri said.
— Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024 -
The total amount the city will owe to the protesters involved in the class action suit is unclear.
— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2023 -
The suit was filed as a class action on behalf of all county foster youth between the ages of 16 and 21.
— Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023 -
There was hope that a class action lawsuit might force AT&T to rethink its charge.
— Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 May 2022 -
The company and its users agreed to settle a class action suit for $725 million, lawyers for the plaintiffs said.
— Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022 -
The courts broke the class action up into their own cases, and five suits tied to the initial complaint are still pending.
— Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023 -
The consumers are asking their suit to be recognized as a class action.
— David Ingram, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022 -
Napoli hopes by this fall the judge will have ruled on a motion filed in his class action lawsuit against Northrop Grumman.
— Cb Cotton, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2024 -
This class action against Google, by the way, is distinct from the Facebook settlement.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 9 June 2022 -
What’s more, the complexity of class action suits may mean their day in court turns into years.
— Dean Kaplan, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 -
Antitrust class actions, as shown in O’Bannon and Alston, can take nearly a decade to resolve.
— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 13 Sep. 2024 -
The court ruled the plaintiff's claims for monetary damages can't be maintained as a class action.
— Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 22 Mar. 2022 -
The window to file a claim against Bleacher Report in a class action settlement is open and the clock is ticking to get in on the payout.
— James Powel, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024 -
Swain is presiding over the Nunez class action lawsuit over violence and staff uses of force in the jails.
— Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024 -
When the money for the butterfly suit is doled out, each person involved in the class action stands to receive a payout.
— Wired, 20 July 2022 -
This time from Boston Chemical, a group hired by a law firm working to build a class action lawsuit.
— Kelsey Klimara, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2023
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