Class Action
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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CLASS ACTION in law, a device that permits...wide discretion in determining that a class will be so represented. Certain requirements must be met, e.g., the class must be so large or dispersed that actual...and in other cases brought to further social and economic reform. In recent decades...