The unbalanced nature of class action litigation often forces defendants to pay dearly to respond to allegations which cost the plaintiff very little to make.

However, within the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is a mechanism by which class action defendants can attempt to minimize this cost by seeking to strike the class allegations either at the outset of the litigation or any time prior to a full-scale class certification hearing.

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