NOUN
- a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group
How To Use class-action suit In A Sentence
- Both class-action suits, they were filed in San Francisco Superior Court.
- Nonetheless, the lawyers leading the class-action suit on behalf of disgruntled GE shareholders certainly found encouragement in Mr Paulson's words.
- The union has filed a brief supporting an August 2002 shareholders class-action suit against the company; the suit is seeking an injunction to stop reincorporation and damages for breach of ‘loyalty, care and candor.’
- A class-action suit was recently filed by lawyers for the homeless who had been improperly denied their benefits.
- Following that scandal, Nortel emerged from a costly settlement of a class-action suit with a weak balance sheet, the informed person said.
- The number of employment-related class-action suits has been on the rise, according to Toronto-based employment lawyer Daniel Lublin. 2009 January : Law is Cool
