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class action

In law, a court procedure where one or more claimants represent a larger group of people who are all making the same kind of claim against the same defendant. The court's decision is binding on all the members of the group.


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Green Welling LLP, of San Francisco, California along with Siebken & Siegele of Austin, Texas and Short, Cressman & Burgess of Seattle, Washington, filed the nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of the owners of the Nintendo Wii against Nintendo of America, Inc.
Conlon denied Exelon's motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit brought as a result of Exelon's spills of tritium-laced water into the local community in Will County, Illinois.
filed the first class action lawsuit on behalf of all citizens of Israel who allegedly died or were seriously injured by the pain medication Vioxx.
 
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