Thanks for your input. It’s just my impression that as much as anything else this suit was designed to make a statement. Maybe they were hoping for 100,000 or even a million plaintiffs; I dunno. The man that brought the suit, Van Irion, is a Constitutional lawyer that coincidentally had his eye on a congressional seat in Tennessee. It’s possible it may have also been a devise to create some noise for himself. Again, I dunno.
First, in trying to respond, I accidentally clicked on your screen name. You have a great page. Go Texas!
You could have a million people in a class action or 10 million but they need to be the class, not the named plaintiffs. The class members are essentially plaintiffs after the court certifies them but the class members don’t have to jump through all of the legal hoops that the named plaintiffs do. The named plaintiffs are the ones listed specifically in the lawsuit. Larry, Moe and Curly on behalf of the class...v. the defendants. I know I am speaking in “legalese” also known as gobbledygook. These class action lawsuits are procedure, procedure, procedure, and somewhere down the road, you get to the real case. I’ve handled about a dozen over the years.
I read the other responses, and I didn’t want anyone to despair about our rights being trampled. That happens all too often, but I don’t think that’s the case in this one.
I HATE Obamacare. I am praying for repeal. There are some great lawsuits that have been filed. This one, honestly, strikes me as a scam or clueless incompetency. When a case obviously is dismissed over procedure, and the writer suggests a political motive, something doesn’t smell right to me. I don’t want to see my fellow Freepers getting caught up in something that may not be what they think it is.
God bless you and good night.