| 词汇 | class-action |
| 释义 | class action noun[ C ] law specializeduk /ˌklɑːs ˈæk.ʃən/ us /ˌklæs ˈæk.ʃən/ a legal action(= a case that is decided in a law court) that is organized by a group of people who all have the same legal problem: 集体诉讼 Plaintiffs' lawyers have tried to get the courts to combine all the potential suits into a single class action.原告律师试图让法庭将所有潜在的诉讼放在一起，成为一个集体诉讼。 [ before noun ]a class-action lawsuit一桩集体诉讼案 Taking legal action abatement order ambulance-chasing appear for someone bring bring an action complainant indict indictment lawyer up legal action litigant litigate litigation petitioner prosecution prosecutorial reindict reindictment retry summons class action | American Dictionaryclass action noun[ C/U ] us/ˈklæs ˈæk·ʃən/ law legal action for the benefit of a large group of people claiming to have suffered similar harm class action | Business Englishclass action noun[ C ] LAWukus a legal action that is organized by a group of people who all have the same legal problem: She is one of about 100 women whose claims of discrimination led the U.S. District Court to expand the California case to a nationwide class action. a class-action suit/lawsuitA class-action suit against the company describes its sales methods as "inherently abusive." Examples of class actionclass action We do not yet know to what extent pharmaceutical classaction suits and criminal proceedings can help. The authors note that this scenario presents an especially attractive target for classaction lawyers (many similarly-situated plaintiffs and large dollar losses). With respect to ' 'classaction' ' suits, there were also, and continue to be, significant differences between the two countries. This was not so much classaction as moral indignation that the rules of the reciprocal relationship had been ignored. In a classaction, ex ante, plaintiffs each have an equal share in the one-in-thirteen chance of recovering. It is also clear that he prefers an agenda of individual cases to a single determination in a classaction. If the classaction is maintained, there is a small chance that defendants will lose all cases. As a result, the expected value of defendant's liability is one-thirteenth of plaintiff's total claims whether there is one classaction or many individual actions. The question, then, is how sampling error gives expression to minority sentiment in a classaction or individual actions. In technical terms, there is more variance in the "all or nothing" classaction. That decision should be made, as it most often is, based upon the efficiency of a classaction as compared to individual actions. There are limitations on classaction suits, the type of claims that can be brought, and the type of claimants who can bring cases. What appears to lie at the heart of his concern is the possibility that if a classaction is permitted, "minority" sentiment may prevail with respect to all cases. But the impact of this error, again, a defendant's risk aversion aside, is the same whether a class action is maintained or each plaintiff sues individually. As a positive matter, there is no doubt that a classaction is more favorable to a group of plaintiffs than are individual actions by members of the group. See all examples of class action These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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