On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, James Rishaw wrote:

Scott Bradner wrote:

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minus the lawyer's fee & distribution expenses - I'd guess that means you will get about $0.14 for each domain.

If a class action suit against NSI were won, I doubt NSI would not be able to deduct legal expenses from the judgement against them.

I think Scott was referring to the lawyers representing the Class, not the defendants. Typically in cases like this, the class' lawyers make a boatload of money while the members of the class get back a small fraction of what they had originally lost. In other cases the losses suffered by each member of the class are minimal when taken individually... Did you buy a computer monitor between 1991 and 1995? Did you collect your $13? Your lawyers got $6 Million. (The especially nasty cases are the ones where the lawyers negotioate a nice hefty fee for themselves while the class ends up with a bunch of coupons for products or services they didn't want in the first place...) Some cynics would alledge that some lawyers form class-action suits to make a lot of money- not because they want to see some large injustice corrected... --zawada (All IMHO...) Paul J. Zawada, RCDD | Senior Network Engineer zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu | National Center for Supercomputing Applications +1 630 686 7825 | http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/zawada