They’re worried the sound drove down the price of their home, but they didn’t join the lawsuit… I’m officially confused.
Doing something that lowers the value of somebody’s house is usually a pretty slam dunk way for that person to be able to sue you. The article doesn’t mention if they have some sort of weird attachment to the house, but otherwise why wouldn’t you just wanna take the money and move somewhere else in the same town or otherwise? Especially if it’s already been four fucking years.
I’m not a class action law person, but I would think having that large a group of people harmed could qualify for lawsuit consolidation under a class action, assuming they could appropriately define the class.
I am also not an expert in this area, however AFAIK being capable of being class action doesn’t make it class action. The Sandy Hook families sued Alex Jones and the number of plaintiffs didn’t make that class action either. As well, in Oklahoma right now there are 100s of similar cases against State Farm regarding hail damage payouts and despite intervention from the state AG these have not become a class action. From the information we do have at least one household invited at least one other household to join a lawsuit and they declined, beyond that we don’t know that there are even other plaintiffs to begin with.
yeah, the scenario i’m thinking of is that they have a few ten thousands lawsuits in that area alone and the respondent (whoever owns the datacenter) registers to have all those lawsuits consolidated. i could swear i’ve heard of it happening but again, not an area of law i’ve so much as been adjacent to.
They’re worried the sound drove down the price of their home, but they didn’t join the lawsuit… I’m officially confused.
Doing something that lowers the value of somebody’s house is usually a pretty slam dunk way for that person to be able to sue you. The article doesn’t mention if they have some sort of weird attachment to the house, but otherwise why wouldn’t you just wanna take the money and move somewhere else in the same town or otherwise? Especially if it’s already been four fucking years.
They probably have more to gain in individual action than class action
Joining a lawsuit like that wouldn’t automatically make it class action.
I’m not a class action law person, but I would think having that large a group of people harmed could qualify for lawsuit consolidation under a class action, assuming they could appropriately define the class.
I am also not an expert in this area, however AFAIK being capable of being class action doesn’t make it class action. The Sandy Hook families sued Alex Jones and the number of plaintiffs didn’t make that class action either. As well, in Oklahoma right now there are 100s of similar cases against State Farm regarding hail damage payouts and despite intervention from the state AG these have not become a class action. From the information we do have at least one household invited at least one other household to join a lawsuit and they declined, beyond that we don’t know that there are even other plaintiffs to begin with.
yeah, the scenario i’m thinking of is that they have a few ten thousands lawsuits in that area alone and the respondent (whoever owns the datacenter) registers to have all those lawsuits consolidated. i could swear i’ve heard of it happening but again, not an area of law i’ve so much as been adjacent to.