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Mr. Waibel's book "Sovereign Defaults Before International Courts and Tribunals," says that nonparticipating creditors in Argentina's coercive 2005 debt restructuring—at 30 cents on the dollar—filed 140 individual lawsuits and 18 class-action suits in the U.S. and obtained judgments totaling $6.4 billion.

'Voluntary' Greece Deal Seen Overstated Stephen Fidler 2012

Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which set out the criteria for class-action lawsuits, plaintiffs must demonstrate that the facts and law at issue is "common to the class."

Justices Curb Class Actions Jess Bravin 2011

The pair hopes to get rich off a class-action lawsuit against a major pharmaceutical company, but their plan backfires.

The Race to Bring Over a Japanese Best Seller Alexandra Alter 2011

Since 2006, about 300 hibakusha have won in 30 class-action suits nationwide.

Past Haunts Tally of Japan's Nuke Crisis Yuka Hayashi 2011

New York City has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of people who were charged with loitering decades after the state's laws were ruled unconstitutional.

City Settles Loitering Suit for $15 Million Sean Gardiner 2012

A U.S. District Court judge in November gave preliminary approval to a global settlement of eight class-action lawsuits against Discover lodging such allegations.

Discover Warns of Material Charges Andrew R. Johnson 2012

APCO activates the CALAs whenever a client gets hit with a big class-action suit.

Wendell Potter: The Front Group Hall of Shame Gets a New Inductee Wendell Potter 2011

The insurance industry took notice of that campaign and hired APCO when thousands of doctors filed a class-action lawsuit against managed care companies in the late 1990s for cheating them out of payments they were due.

Wendell Potter: The Front Group Hall of Shame Gets a New Inductee Wendell Potter 2011

In the background of this new activism is a 2009 class-action lawsuit filed by former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon.

Big-Time College Athletes Ask, 'Who's the Amateur?' Ben Cohen 2011

The class-action lawsuit was the result of separate civil suits that challenged the three antiloitering laws.

City Settles Loitering Suit for $15 Million Sean Gardiner 2012