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Data Center Emits Constant Screeching Noise Directly Into Man’s House (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Joining a lawsuit like that wouldn’t automatically make it class action.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    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.

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