Virtually all class-action lawsuits, in their present day form, are scams. An individual plaintiff within the class gets a couple hundred bucks and the firm handling the case gets millions on a percentage. Not to mention the cut that referring “farmers” (lawyers that do just enough paperwork to merit a pay-out on their referral).
Class actions are only a valuable thing to plaintiffs if the class is small and manageable. Nationwide class actions are a lawyer’s retirement dream.
Nice summation. There was a good market/consumer protective effect with the threat of these cases, i.e., cause for pause by the corporations and, indeed, the government (e.g. in taxpayer cases). But, ala$, the incentive$ and reward$ of abu$e (legi$lated by the whore$ in Congre$$ and do gooder judges) trumped the spirit and purpose of the class action vehicle for redress...