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Good for you!

I'm interested in your perspective on the small claims route vs. class action.

It seems like a class action suit has the potential to have a larger impact on Equifax since the size of it would be so large, but it's sad to see individual amounts so low in most of them.

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I sort of feel "let a million lawsuits bloom" I think there's a usefulness in the death by 1000 cuts approach and I think there will be class action cases whether or not 100 or 1000 people decide to sue in small claims. I also think the schema is a little different (tho I am not a lawyer) so you can make somewhat different arguments and claims.

It would be so much more gratifying to see 50000 people sue individually and have Equifax have to staff 50000 individual cases. They could choose to defend for more than $5K per case win or lose, or they could just pay out $5K to each litigant.

Equifax would beg for a class action where they get off for $500/litigant + a couple million to the winning attorneys.

> Equifax would beg for a class action where they get off for $500/litigant + a couple million to the winning attorneys.

But this plaintiff only got $600

And they had to send a lawyer from Atlanta to Vermont which probably at least tripled that. Not saying it's not small change, just saying there are other costs.

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