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- 1. a lawsuit filed or defended by an individual acting on behalf of a group: North American "a class action suit"
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A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group. The class action originated in the United States and is still predominantly an American phenomenon, but Canada, as well as several European countries with civil law, have... Wikipedia