When companies or institutions cheat, harm, or discriminate against large numbers of people, class actions are often the only way to hold them accountable and win justice.  That's why corporate wrongdoers are trying to ban, limit, and abuse class actions nationwide.

• They have gotten Congress to enact legislation that will effectively eliminate many class actions in state courts.
• They’re amending their form contracts to ban consumers, workers, and investors from bringing class actions anywhere – in the courts or in arbitration.
• They’re trying to use no-opt-out, coupon, and outrageous class action settlements to cap their liability and deprive their victims of their rights.

WHAT PUBLIC JUSTICE IS DOING

Public Justice is the only public interest organization in the country that both aggressively prosecutes a wide range of class actions and has a special project to preserve class actions and prevent their abuse.

Our Class Action Preservation Project has won the leading decisions in the nation striking down class action bans.  We have won landmark rulings preserving class actions in the California, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Washington state high courts and numerous federal appeals courts – and are battling more every day. For more than a decade, we have also been objecting to – and defeating – proposed class action settlements that would make the corporate defendant happy, but deprive class members of access to justice.

Class action lawsuits are a powerful legal device.  Properly used, they are often the only way to achieve justice.  Abused, they can impose enormous injustice – and support corporate wrongdoers’ attempts to eliminate them entirely.  That’s why our Class Action Preservation Project works so hard to preserve class actions and prevent their abuse.

For additional information:

See our full Class Action Preservation Case Index

See our Class Action Preservation Project Highlights

And click here for more about our work fighting class action abuse