DEFENDING THE CLASS ACTION (FROM ITS CRITICS)

[...]Dolores's lawyers filed a class action that focused on the preferred scheduling system and how it shorted workers of their earned wages. The class action today works best when it uses the market for legal services to regulate the market for commercial services. If, without a class action check, a class defendant would retain virtually all if not all of the unjust benefit due to the real economic impediments to individual cases, then only a class action can deter or recover for the illegal charges and practices. After dozens of visits to the dealer and repeated repairs, the dealer stopped covering the repairs even though the "new" brakes still wore out about every 8,000 miles. Because the brake rotors were too small and the axle was mispositioned, there was no repair or replacement that could or would cure the fundamental heatdissipation defect in materials and workmanship.