About the only ones to profit from class action lawsuits are the attorneys. Anything that will stymie them is fine with me.
Almost every Class Action I’ve been included in has ended up offering me coupons to buy more of that company’s stuff. Why I’d want to buy more of something that was less than satisfactory in the first place is beyond me.
The Supreme Court made a bad judgement here. AT&T being one of the biggest crooks ever should never be allowed to do this as well as other phone companies. It deprives the citizens and rights.
You sure the USSC hasn't "gone over"?
In other news, many Mississippi lawyers are filing for bankruptcy.
Anything which makes ambulance chasers unhappy is OK by me.
You mean no more lawsuits where each “consumer” is awarded 40 cents and the lawyers get $35 million? What an injustice!
This only applies if you sign a contract that explicitly says that you will accept arbitration in the event of a dispute. Sheeesh.
My credit card was sued several years ago. I got a 38 cent credit to my bill. The lawyers got 3 million dollars. My annual fee went up $5 the next year.
and your little Demonrat political toadies, too.
Sounds good to me.
5-4 decision. How they voted is important to note:
“The Court’s 18-page decision was written by Justice Antonin Scalia and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas, who also supplied his own six-page concurring opinion.
Justice Steven Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan by, provided a 12-page dissenting opinion.”
This will go a long way towards defunding the Democratic Party. Something like a quarter of their funding comes from the filthy blood suckers of the plaintiff’s bar, and among them the biggest donors are the class action pirates. These greedy people are pure scum, and the prospect of their impending bankruptcy is delightful.
The point of these lawsuits is to prevent numerous small scale thefts. Nobody will hire a lawyer and waste more time if they were cheated out of a few bucks.
As the old saying goes...
You can’t steal a million from one person. But I guess now you can steal a dollar from a million people and get away with it.