At 09:34 PM 1/27/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>Have any class-action suits been filed against NSI? The only large-scale
>suit that I'm aware of is that of name.space. It's a wonder some smart
>lawfirm doesn't get a couple of hundred of the losers together and sue NSI
>for a few billion dollars.
Contrary to the popular image of attorneys as ambulance chasers,
attorneys are not allowed to run out and gather up clients. It takes
a handful of clients (or even one) with enough $$ to bankroll such
a project, and then once it becomes possible to qualify a class,
then and only then can the firm or firms involved run ads, along
the line of "if you have done x (or had x done to you), you may be
qualified . . ." blah, blah. The Boise-Cascade siding case is a
good example.
Bill Lovell
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