Washington Post: “Even when it’s a relatively low dollar amount, one of the other main purposes of consumer class actions isn’t compensation, its deterrence,” says Adam Zimmerman, a professor of law at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles who specializes in class actions. “Yes, 80 million people might not even really care to recover their small amounts but we don’t want to create a procedural system where a company can do that over and over to consumers.”
Source: Washington Post
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