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Cash That Class Action Check, No Matter How Small

Law360
July 21, 2015

While consumers sometimes balk at what they perceive as small individual payouts following a class action settlement, consumers — and more importantly, the media and public at large — often fail to realize that their place engaging with the class action settlement serves a vital role in ensuring consumer protection. By joining the class and cashing the check, consumers ensure that wrongful behavior toward consumers remains a costlier option to defendant companies than acting justly toward consumers in the first place.