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tclambert

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3. So if a corporation cheats a million customers out of $30 each, they can get away with it.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:04 AM

Apr 2012

Sure, each victim could sue for their $30, in theory. But of course no one will. They only way to stop such cheating was to allow the million victims to band together and make it one court case for $30,000,000.

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