Class Action
What do you do when you're cheated, but your loss is only pennies, or a dollar or 5 dollars? What if you suspect that they are doing it to everyone?
What do you do when you're charged for late fees that you don't owe, but the amount is only a few dollars...and it makes no financial sense to fight? What if you suspect that you are not the only one?
What happens when your wages are wrong, but the amount is not enough to convince any lawyer to take your case? What if you know it is happening to coworkers as well?
Or when the phone company or the gas company or the drug companies are wrongfully charging you extra pennies, but because it's so small an amount you just can't fight it; but you know it's wrong and you want to do something about it.
Chances are that if it is happening to you, it is happening to thousands of others; and if that's the case, then there is something that can be done; a class action lawsuit.
A class action lawsuit is a tool for social justice. It allows one victim to sue on behalf of all people who have suffered a similar wrong in a similar way. A class action lawsuit allows all the tiny, but important wrongs to be combined, so that it becomes financially possible to bring the lawsuit and seek justice; to put an end to the wrong and compensate victims for the damage they have suffered.
Remember that when a large corporation is cheating one person out of a dollar, chances are that the victim will do nothing. If they do it to a million people a day, they are making an extra 365 million dollars a year. Considering those numbers, the odds are that what may appear to be a mistake, is really not a mistake at all.
What do you do when you're charged for late fees that you don't owe, but the amount is only a few dollars...and it makes no financial sense to fight? What if you suspect that you are not the only one?
What happens when your wages are wrong, but the amount is not enough to convince any lawyer to take your case? What if you know it is happening to coworkers as well?
Or when the phone company or the gas company or the drug companies are wrongfully charging you extra pennies, but because it's so small an amount you just can't fight it; but you know it's wrong and you want to do something about it.
Chances are that if it is happening to you, it is happening to thousands of others; and if that's the case, then there is something that can be done; a class action lawsuit.
A class action lawsuit is a tool for social justice. It allows one victim to sue on behalf of all people who have suffered a similar wrong in a similar way. A class action lawsuit allows all the tiny, but important wrongs to be combined, so that it becomes financially possible to bring the lawsuit and seek justice; to put an end to the wrong and compensate victims for the damage they have suffered.
Remember that when a large corporation is cheating one person out of a dollar, chances are that the victim will do nothing. If they do it to a million people a day, they are making an extra 365 million dollars a year. Considering those numbers, the odds are that what may appear to be a mistake, is really not a mistake at all.
