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93 relations: American Association for Justice, Amount in controversy, Arbitration, Arbitration clause, Asbestos, Asset, AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, Bhopal disaster, Bill of Peace, Blackmail, Bond (finance), Bureau of Justice Statistics, California, California Codes, Canadian Indian residential school system, Civil law (common law), Civil law (legal system), Civil Procedure Rules, Civil rights movement, Class Action (film), Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, Collective redress, Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, Common stock, Congressional Research Service, Constitution of India, Consumerism, Corporation, Coupon settlement, Court of Chancery, Cy-près doctrine, Debt, Defendant, Due process, Environmentalism, European Union, Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Equity Rules, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Frank v. Gaos, Government of Canada, Government of India, Insolvency, Jacques Chirac, Joseph Story, Judicature Acts, Landeros v. Flood, Law of the United States, Lawsuit, List of class-action lawsuits, ..., Manitoba, Mass tort, Michael Greve, Multidistrict litigation, Non-governmental organization, Nora Bernard, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Parens patriae, Parliament of India, Parliamentary sovereignty, Plaintiff, Prince Edward Island, Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Public interest law, Quebec, Removal jurisdiction, Richard Epstein, Rofecoxib, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, Saskatchewan, Securities Class Action, Separation of powers, Settlement (litigation), Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Portland, Standard form contract, Star Chamber, Stuff.co.nz, Supreme Court of Argentina, Supreme Court of California, Supreme Court of India, Supreme Court of the United States, Tort, Trial, Unincorporated associations in English law, Union Carbide, United States district court, Venue (law), Voluntary association, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, Wars of the Roses, West v. Randall, Witness. Expand index (43 more) »
American Association for Justice
The American Association for Justice (AAJ), formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) is a nonprofit advocacy and lobbying organization for plaintiff's lawyers in the United States.
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Amount in controversy
Amount in controversy (sometimes called jurisdictional amount) is a term used in civil procedure to denote the amount at stake in a lawsuit, in particular in connection with a requirement that persons seeking to bring a lawsuit in a particular court must be suing for a certain minimum amount (or below a certain maximum amount) before that court may hear the case.
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Arbitration
Arbitration, a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), is a way to resolve disputes outside the courts.
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Arbitration clause
An arbitration clause is a clause in a contract that requires the parties to resolve their disputes through an arbitration process.
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Asbestos
Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.
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Asset
In financial accounting, an asset is an economic resource.
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AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion
AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion,, is a legal dispute that was decided by the United States Supreme Court.
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Bhopal disaster
The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Bill of Peace
Bill of Peace was an English court practice used in the 17th and 18th centuries for legal disputes involving multiple parties that shared common aspects.
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Blackmail
Blackmail is an act, often criminal, involving unjustified threats to make a gain—most commonly money or property—or cause loss to another unless a demand is met.
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Bond (finance)
In finance, a bond is an instrument of indebtedness of the bond issuer to the holders.
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Bureau of Justice Statistics
The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a federal government agency belonging to the U.S. Department of Justice and a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California Codes
The California Codes are 29 legal codes enacted by the California State Legislature, which together form the general statutory law of California.
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Canadian Indian residential school system
In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples.
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Civil law (common law)
Civil law is a branch of the law.
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Civil law (legal system)
Civil law, civilian law, or Roman law is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of Roman law, the main feature of which is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law.
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Civil Procedure Rules
The Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) are the rules of civil procedure used by the Court of Appeal, High Court of Justice, and County Courts in civil cases in England and Wales.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Class Action (film)
Class Action is a 1991 American legal drama film directed by Michael Apted.
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Class Action Fairness Act of 2005
The U.S. Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, 28 U.S.C. Sections 1332(d), 1453, and 1711–1715, expanded subject-matter jurisdiction over many large class-action lawsuits and mass actions taken in the United States.
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Collective redress
Collective redress is a legal term used within the European Union to define the legal instrument of group proceedings as there is absolutely no regulation at the moment.
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Comcast Corp. v. Behrend
Comcast Corp.
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Common stock
Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security.
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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), known as Congress's think tank, is a public policy research arm of the United States Congress.
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Constitution of India
The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India.
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Consumerism
Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.
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Corporation
A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
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Coupon settlement
In law, a coupon settlement is a resolution between disputing parties in a class action lawsuit, reached either before or after court action begins.
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Court of Chancery
The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law.
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Cy-près doctrine
The cy-près doctrine is a legal doctrine that first arose in courts of equity.
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Debt
Debt is when something, usually money, is owed by one party, the borrower or debtor, to a second party, the lender or creditor.
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Defendant
A defendant is a person accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or a person against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case.
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Due process
Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.
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Environmentalism
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Federal Council (Switzerland)
The Federal Council is the seven-member executive council which constitutes the federal government of the Swiss Confederation and serves as the collective executive head of government and state of Switzerland.
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Federal Equity Rules
The Federal Equity Rules were court rules that, until 1938, governed civil procedure in suits of equity in federal courts.
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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (officially abbreviated Fed. R. Civ. P.; colloquially FRCP) govern civil procedure (i.e. for civil lawsuits) in United States district (federal) courts.
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Frank v. Gaos
Frank v. Gaos is a lawsuit concerning the practice of cy-près settlements in class action lawsuits that will be considered on appeal by the Supreme Court of the United States in its October 2018 session.
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Government of Canada
The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.
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Government of India
The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.
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Insolvency
Insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the money owed, by a person or company, on time; those in a state of insolvency are said to be insolvent.
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Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932) is a French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 1995 to 2007.
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Joseph Story
Joseph Story (September 18, 1779 – September 10, 1845) was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845.
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Judicature Acts
The Judicature Acts are a series of Acts of Parliament, beginning in the 1870s, which aimed to fuse the hitherto split system of courts in England and Wales.
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Landeros v. Flood
Landeros v. Flood was a 1976 court case in the state of California involving child abuse and alleged medical malpractice.
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Law of the United States
The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the United States Constitution, the foundation of the federal government of the United States.
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Lawsuit
A lawsuit (or suit in law) is "a vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons in the courts of law." A lawsuit is any proceeding by a party or parties against another in a court of law.
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List of class-action lawsuits
This page has a list of lawsuits brought as class actions.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.
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Mass tort
A mass tort is a civil action involving numerous plaintiffs against one or a few defendants in state or federal court.
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Michael Greve
Michael S. Greve is a Professor at the George Mason University School of Law.
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Multidistrict litigation
In the United States, multidistrict litigation (MDL) refers to a special federal legal procedure designed to speed the process of handling complex cases, such as air disaster litigation or complex product liability suits.
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Non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.
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Nora Bernard
Nora Bernard (September 22, 1935 – December 27, 2007) was a Canadian Mi'kmaq activist who sought compensation for survivors of the Canadian Indian residential school system.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Parens patriae
Parens patriae is Latin for "parent of the nation" (lit., "parent of the fatherland").
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Parliament of India
The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India.
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Parliamentary sovereignty
Parliamentary sovereignty (also called parliamentary supremacy or legislative supremacy) is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies.
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Plaintiff
A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands.
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Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Pub.
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Public interest law
Public interest law loosely, refers to legal practices undertaken to help poor or marginalized people, or to effect change in social policies in the public interest, on 'not for profit' terms (''pro bono publico'').
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Quebec
Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.
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Removal jurisdiction
In the United States, removal jurisdiction refers to the right of a defendant to move a lawsuit filed in state court to the federal district court for the federal judicial district in which the state court sits.
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Richard Epstein
Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is an American legal scholar best known for his writings and studies on classical liberalism, libertarianism, torts, contracts, and a wide variety of topics in law and economics.
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Rofecoxib
Rofecoxib is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that has now been withdrawn over safety concerns.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon
The Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon (Archidioecesis Portlandensis in Oregonia) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders.
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Securities Class Action
A securities class action, or securities fraud class action, is a lawsuit filed by investors who bought or sold a company’s securities within a specific period of time (known as a “class period”) and suffered economic injury as a result of violations of the securities laws.
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Separation of powers
The separation of powers is a model for the governance of a state.
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Settlement (litigation)
In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins.
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Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Portland
The sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon in the United States is an important chapter in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States.
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Standard form contract
A standard form contract (sometimes referred to as a contract of adhesion, a leonine contract, a take-it-or-leave-it contract, or a boilerplate contract) is a contract between two parties, where the terms and conditions of the contract are set by one of the parties, and the other party has little or no ability to negotiate more favorable terms and is thus placed in a "take it or leave it" position.
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Star Chamber
The Star Chamber (Latin: Camera stellata) was an English court of law which sat at the royal Palace of Westminster, from the late to the mid-17th century (c. 1641), and was composed of Privy Councillors and common-law judges, to supplement the judicial activities of the common-law and equity courts in civil and criminal matters.
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Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nz is a New Zealand news website published by Fairfax Digital, a division of Fairfax New Zealand Ltd, a subsidiary of Australian company Fairfax Media Ltd.
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Supreme Court of Argentina
The Nation's Supreme Court of Justice (in Spanish, Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación) is the highest court of law of the Argentine Republic.
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Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the court of last resort in the courts of the State of California.
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Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of constitutional review.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Tort
A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.
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Trial
In law, a trial is a coming together of parties to a dispute, to present information (in the form of evidence) in a tribunal, a formal setting with the authority to adjudicate claims or disputes.
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Unincorporated associations in English law
Unincorporated associations have a series of features that demarcate them from other areas of English law.
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Union Carbide
Union Carbide Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary (since 2001) of Dow Chemical Company.
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United States district court
The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system.
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Venue (law)
Venue (law) is the location where a case is heard.
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Voluntary association
A voluntary group or union (also sometimes called a voluntary organization, common-interest association,Prins HEL et al. (2010).. Cengage Learning. association, or society) is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement, usually as volunteers, to form a body (or organization) to accomplish a purpose.
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
Wal-Mart v. Dukes,, was a United States Supreme Court case.
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Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, associated with a red rose, and the House of York, whose symbol was a white rose.
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West v. Randall
West v. Randall (29 F. Cas. 718 (R.I. 1820)) is one of the earliest class action lawsuit related cases in early United States federal case law.
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Witness
A witness is someone who has, who claims to have, or is thought, by someone with authority to compel testimony, to have knowledge relevant to an event or other matter of interest.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action
