Let us venture some reasons on why nobody is joining Googasian’s class action lawsuit. Here is a quick search on class actions. These are the things Wikipedia has to say for instance.
“The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act stated that… class actions harmed class members with legitimate claims and… undermined public respect for the country’s judicial system.”
This is of course no coincidence. Just think of a typical legal shark; the individual who’d come to your mind would be an ambulance chaser; a class action expert so to speak. Class actions have earned a bad reputation, because it has been misused profusely.
Don’t get me wrong, Class action is a very important tool of justice when used properly.
The lawyers who are not that much qualified to find good jobs, this is the tool where people can easily start a civil action practice of their own. All it takes is a cheap office in an urban neighborhood with lots of less educated, malleable individual person walking around and an eagerness to make money off of other people’s loss.
We’ve discussed it before cases of exemplary abuses of class action on this blog as well. Just put, class action lawyers, In many cases do not charge their clients up front, expose their clients to significant risks of legal recourse, financial damage and possible custody. If case a class action lawsuit is dismissed, the defendant has the right to countersue. Because of this class action will a highly risky venture for the claimants.
No one from the usually smart Belford alumni community wants to join Googasian’s comedy of errors.