Words similar to class-action

Example sentences for: class-action

How can you use “class-action” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Since 1996, lawyers who receive money from Legal Services have been prohibited from such activities as lobbying legislatures, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, pursuing abortion-related litigation, representing illegal aliens or prisoners, or defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs
In 1996, a Republican-controlled Congress prohibited lawyers receiving federal funding - the mainstay of nearly all poverty law offices - from engaging in class-action lawsuits and matters involving abortion, illegal immigration or challenges to reduced welfare benefits inaugurated by President Clinton and some other Democrats.
The LAT is alone in fronting the filing yesterday of class-action lawsuits against five of the nation's largest HMOs.
--John Steffens, vice chairman of Merrill Lynch, not encouraging women employees to join a class-action sex discrimination suit against the brokerage firm.
A WP front-pager reports that damages awarded to 500,000 Floridian smokers in a class-action suit could not be paid in a lump sum, saving the tobacco industry from a multibillion dollar verdict that might have forced some of the small companies to fold.