What is the difference between a class action and a single trial?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Blyden v. Mancusi, 186 F.3d 252 (2nd Cir. 1997):
8. Meriwether v. Coughlin, 879 F.2d 1037 (2d Cir. 1989), was brought as a class action but involved a single trial on liability and damages, and individual verdicts, resembling consolidated rather than class proceedings.
8. Meriwether v. Coughlin, 879 F.2d 1037 (2d Cir. 1989), was brought as a class action but involved a single trial on liability and damages, and individual verdicts, resembling consolidated rather than class proceedings.
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