class action
Many-plaintiff suit
A class action is a lawsuit filed by one or more plaintiffs on behalf of a larger group who suffered similar harm: The class action against the pharmaceutical company included thousands of patients.
Class actions allow people with small individual claims to pool resources against large defendants.
The term often modifies other nouns: class action suit, class action settlement.
Civil court proceeding
- plaintiffsThose initiating lawsuits
- defendantsThose facing prosecution
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- damagesCompensation for injury
certification · complaint · allegations · counsel · representation · jurisdiction · multidistrict · discovery
Those initiating lawsuits
- groupAssembled collection of things
- solidarityUnity among allies
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- representationDepiction or likeness
counsel · opt-out · notice · common interest · consumers · shareholders · employees · victims
Attestation of qualification
- discoveryAct of finding something
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
trial · appeal · verdict · judgment · ruling · motion · brief · docket
Resolved dispute or colony
- damagesCompensation for injury
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
- redressCompensation for injury
relief · award · payout · fund · distribution · injunction · reform · consent decree
lawsuit
Civil court proceeding
- plaintiffsThose initiating lawsuits
- defendantsThose facing prosecution
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
damages · certification · complaint · allegations · counsel · representation · jurisdiction · multidistrict · discovery · opt-out
plaintiffs
Those initiating lawsuits
- groupAssembled collection of things
- solidarityUnity among allies
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
representation · counsel · opt-out · notice · common interest · consumers · shareholders · employees · victims · claimants
certification
Attestation of qualification
- discoveryAct of finding something
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
evidence · trial · appeal · verdict · judgment · ruling · motion · brief · docket · hearing
settlement
Resolved dispute or colony
- damagesCompensation for injury
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
redress · relief · award · payout · fund · distribution · injunction · reform · consent decree · attorney fees
- litigationpleadings, lawsuit, plaintiff, complaint, lawsuits
- French LawNapoleonic Code, magistrates, judiciary, civil courts, criminal courts
- securities regulationsecurities law, insider trading laws, securities fraud, insider trading, prospectus
- toxic tortsmesothelioma, asbestos exposure, lead poisoning, silicosis, Agent Orange
- legallawyer, judge, jury, trial, verdict
- classessubclass, superclass, underclass, caste, tier
class actionarbitration
Non-court binding dispute resolution
mediation · out-of-court settlement · forced arbitration · binding arbitration
action, active, class, actor, activity, actress, actual, actually, actions