Editing Class action suit

A '''class action suit''' is a [[lawsuit]] in which an entire group or '''class''' of people claims a similar harm has been done to them by the same party or parties.  For example:

*The claim that [[pollution]] released upstream does harm to people downstream could be advanced by a group of people seeking compensation for health harms.

*The claim that [[Wikipedia violates GFDL]] could be advanced by a large group of [[GFDL contributor]]s cheated of [[attribution]], [[access to improvement]]s (as required by [[GFDL]] or indeed any [[sharealike]] license), or otherwise by an unaccountable group of people who have seized effective control of the [[GFDL corpus]] and chosen to deliberately censor materially they dislike on political grounds - which have no status and are no excuse under the [[GFDL]].

*The claim that [[libel]] is propagated in the forums of [[Wikimedia]], which has taken no steps at all to prevent use of names of uninvolved or involutarily named parties ("[[outing]]") in connection with [[false and unsubstantiated claims]] regarding [[alleged and collective identity]] or [[spun death threat|death threat]]s or [[conspiracy]] or other claims published on its [[vile mailing list]].

Rules for filing such suits vary by jurisdiction.  In general the [[United States]] makes it relatively easy to file such suits.  However, even where they are harder to file, such as in [[India]] or [[Ontario]], there are sometimes rules favourable to [[plaintiff]]s:  In [[Ontario]], plaintiffs can sell shares in the eventual judgement damages, to finance the case itself;  In a famous case against broker [[w:Nesbitt Burns]], there were literally people lined up around the block to buy shares in the lawsuit against this infamous company which sold shares in [[w:Bre-X]].  Ontario also has quite lax [[libel]] and [[slander]] laws under which one can sue even when true things are being said - if they are out of context to the discussion or discourse and not relevant to the decisions being made.  Which is the case for [[Wikipedia mailing list]] in most or all cases, it is simply a hate forum for the [[sysop power structure]].