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Conservative justices limited consumer, civil rights lawsuits during this Supreme Court term

Conservative justices limited consumer, civil rights lawsuits during this Supreme Court term

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority made it harder for people to band together to sue the nation’s largest businesses in the two most far-reaching rulings of the term the justices are wrapping up on Monday. The two cases putting new limits on class-action lawsuits were among more than a dozen in which the justices divided 5-4 along familiar ideological lines, with the winning side determined by the vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy.

 

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