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Originally Posted by advocate2
Buddy,
Contract law is a substantive area of law. Class Actions are a procedural matter. Whenever you have many persons who are similarly situated, it is not cost effective for the plaintiffs and burdensome to the Defendants and Courts system to have a proliferation of many lawsuits. The Class Action Procedure allows consolidation of many plaintiffs into one case. The problem with the case at hand is that there may not be enough members and the damages each suffered is not likely to be more than a couple of hundred dollars each. Honestly, I'm just not sure that enough damages have been sustained by the class to attract the typical class action contingency law firm.
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Hey Advocate2,
Yes I am familiar with contract law and the wild and wonderful place it fills in the halls of jurisprudence. I confess it was my favorite subject, whereas criminal all just seemed grimy and repetitive. That said, I am NOT licensed to practice law in the US - my schooling was England & Wales, with no exposure to class action law, for obvious reasons.
I will defend the fella that misspoke of "tort reform" only because, while not precisely correct in this instance, it is sometimes used by the layperson to describe reforming not only tort, but also the rush to and ease of overzealous civil litigation in general. But that just my opinion.
