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In recent years, much political and legal debate has centered on the class action lawsuit. Many lawyers and judges have noted the intense pressure to settle caused by the very filing of a suit. Some contend that the procedure amounts to a form of judicial blackmail. Others counter that it is an effective means of policing corporate behavior and assuring injured victims' fair compensation. This book represents the first scholarly effort to view the modern class action comprehensively through the lenses of American political and constitutional theory. Redish argues that the modern class action undermines foundational constitutional principles, and has been improperly transformed from its origins as a complex procedural device into a means for altering controlling substantive law in highly undemocratic ways.Redish proposes an alternative vision of the class action lawsuit, one designed to enable the device to serve its valuable procedural purposes without simultaneously contravening core precepts of American constitutional democracy.

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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Legal system: general

• Full title: Wholesale Justice
• Subtitle: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class Action Lawsuit
• Author: Martin H. Redish
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780804752749
• ISBN: 0804752745
• ID: 04718010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. April 2009

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