I commented recently on the fact that the well publicized “class-action” trial against the United States Department of Veteran’s Affairs was never actually certified as a class action. Instead, the case is being pursued by two nonprofit veterans’ advocacy groups who are pursuing the case on behalf of their members based on a concept called associational [...]
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Partial Glossary of Representative Actions and Terms
Posted in Class Action Trends, Other Representative Actions, tagged aggregator, associational standing, bellwether, class action, collateral estoppel, collective action, derivative suits, dispositive motion, issue preclusion, mass action, non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel, parens patriae, qui tam, representative action, reverse bifurcation, virtual representation on May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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