Class action suit; Retribution for Trumps frivolous lawsuits...

[Vodid]

Just a thought I had tonite. There must be thousands of frivolous lawsuits that Trump has filed over the decades, and defending them is expensive. What if there was a class action lawsuit that anyone sued by Trump could join; all the people that have been sued that could not afford to fight it, and had to capitulate for purely financial reasons. We know this is a pattern with him. This could include all the contractors he has stiffed, all the way up to his political enemies he wants to destroy via his baseless lawsuits. Representation to fight any lawsuit is expensive, so maybe a class action lawsuit that all these folks could join, together, would be an affordable avenue towards justice.
I'm not a lawyer.

[Faux pas]

1. I always thought

the whole country should file a class action suit against the hump. Stress, PTSD, anything at all just like he does.

[Ocelot II]

2. The class wouldn't be certified, not a chance. For a class action, you need to show that:

(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable;
(2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class;
(3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class; and
(4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class. (Rule 23, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure).

The commonality and typicality requirements of (2) and (3) mean that the plaintiffs' claims have to be so similar that they could be resolved in a single lawsuit. This clearly isn't the situation with Trump's hundreds of frivolous lawsuits, which will have involved many very different legal and factual issues. More importantly, the normal remedy for frivolous litigation isn't a separate lawsuit, but a motion in the same case for attorneys' fees and penalties. Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure empowers judges to hold parties and their lawyers accountable for abuses of court processes and the judicial system, either on their own or on the other party's motion.

Short answer, though, is no.

[Ms. Toad]

3. Thanks for saving me the trouble of dragging out my class action notes . . . n/t