A very important case being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in the upcoming term is Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, one that could further diminish the ability of individuals to bring class actions against corporate wrongdoers.
The pending case brings to mind my own experience in a class action. Although I never thought that I would one day be a named plaintiff in such a lawsuit — as the litigant, not the lawyer — in the mid-1980s, that’s exactly what I was. Along with thousands of others, my spouse and I had taken advantage of falling interest rates to refinance our home mortgage, using a major lender.
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