The Crypto Industry’s ‘Bloody Friday’ Lawsuits: Do They Hold Weight?
Cointelegraph
Published Apr 07, 2020 01:45PM ET
Updated Apr 07, 2020 03:20PM ET
On April 3, a massive deployment of lawsuits were filed against major crypto industry players across the globe. The eleven lawsuits were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern (NYSE:SO) District of New York in what is being called “Bloody Friday” for the industry.
These lawsuits are class action in nature. For those unfamiliar with the term, this means a group of people have joined together to file a lawsuit against another party. Class action lawsuits are not very popular on an international level for a number of reasons, the most prominent being that most of the time after filing the suit, claimants are allowed to grow their class by seeking new parties to add to the lawsuit. Many people believe that fake claimants come forward looking to simply “join the party,” or people that otherwise had no issue with the defendant suddenly develop one. These additional claimants can be sought so that the many hundreds of individuals claims cannot possibly be reviewed, resulting in some claimants receiving money upon the lawsuit’s success with little to no investigation. The U.S. is very well-known for class action lawsuits.
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