Sentences with phrase «decided as a class action»

At a hearing on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen asked if there was a «tension or inconsistency» for Uber to argue that every single one of its drivers is an independent contractor, yet to also argue that the legal issues in the case are so specific to each driver that it can't be decided as a class action.

Not exact matches

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

As a result of that question, we decided to start having larger parts of written assignments done in class, so teachers could observe the thinking / writing process in action.

And now, when he was sixty - five years of age, the very political class he'd so attacked and hounded and scorned from his redoubt, mocked without consideration or respect for the ties of family or friendship (and he'd lost quite a few friends as a result; even a few relatives no longer spoke to him), that very same political class had decided to put the gigantic Colombian machinery of sycophancy into action to create a public homage that, for the first time in history, and perhaps the last, would celebrate a cartoonist.

Just this week, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the district court's certification of the case as a class action, and told the district court judge he needs to decide whether Google's snippets of text could be considered «fair use.»

Before you decide whether to opt out of a class action, ask yourself if you have viable alternatives such as private litigation, dispute resolution or a claim for compensation.

But without a transfer of material confidential information during their retainer that could prejudice CN in the class action, the court decided the circumstances did not justify disqualification, noting there were other remedies open to CN, such as suing for damages related to the transfer of files or a complaint to the Law Society of Saskatchewan.

All conduct which could and will raise the ire of a judge looking at the case and deciding whether to allow it to proceed against Equifax as a class action.

Proceeding as a class action will not avoid duplication of fact - finding and legal analysis» and for this reason, the individual claims should be decided on a case - by - case basis, not in a group setting, the court ruled.

In this class of cases, we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of church and state under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of judicial authority, is that whenever the questions of discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final and as binding on them in their application to the case before them.

By certifying this action as a class proceeding, the court has not decided if any of the plaintiffs» allegations are true.

JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline)-- As the Mississippi Supreme Court decides whether to allow class action lawsuits in state courts, a legal reform group has filed its opposition.

Meanwhile, in the Georgia federal court case brought as a class action against Oasis Legal Finance, Judge Dudley Bowen dismissed one element of the lawsuit, and two other counts remain to be decided - including whether Oasis violated the state's Payday Lending Act.

If the court decides that a class action is the «preferable procedure» for dealing with the plaintiff's claim, then the lawsuit is certified as a class action, and it is allowed to go forward.

The court does not decide the merits of the case at this early stage, but merely, examines whether the case is appropriate for treatment as a class action.

As for whether I'm paid by Groupon, take a look previous reporting on the company and decide for yourself (it might be helpful to know, for instance, that I broke the story about the employee class action).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has decided that a suit against a brokerage for allegedly charging a buyer a transaction fee when no service was performed could be certified as a class action suit.