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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by nommm-nommm on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:16PM (#13018167)
>In a good legal system many small claims should be bought and then somebody could sue the company for money. This would be a superior version of a class action lawsuit. A version that is actually practical and would scale.

This exists, it's called small claims court.

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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by nickik on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:23PM (#13018582)
That goes in the right direction but there are many problem that hinder it from scaling.

A organisation can not buy millions of claims from consumers and the fight a full class action lawsuit without any of these people being involve.

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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by mzw_mzw on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:12PM (#13019124)
When you can buy and sell a legal action like that it strikes me as a super bad idea. Wouldn't there be some legal equivalent of the patent trolls who today purchase outdated patents and then go around filing nuisance suits based on them?
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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by nommm-nommm on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:41PM (#13018667)
You make no sense.

If you want to sue CVS for selling you fake aloe go ahead, it costs less than $100 to file a small claims case in my state and CVS will very likely settle with you outside of court because it's cheaper than sending someone to court to defend the company.

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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by nickik on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @07:03PM (#13018796)
Today you can not buy up a hole group of claims and make a collective action suit on behave of the other people. That is not legal.

There are many other problems with the courts that make the system I proposed currently impossible.

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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by nommm-nommm on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:40PM (#13019253)
Class action suits are actually legal.
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Re:No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Ma... by dpark on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:07PM (#13019103)
In what way is your proposal meaningfully different than a class action suit?
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