Eli5: why do class action lawsuits get delivered in indirect ways like food deliveries?
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I’m wondering what you mean about the “class action lawsuit” part specifically. Class action lawsuits are specific type of lawsuit where it’s not a single person or company that is suing someone else – it’s an entire “class” of people. For example if company X calculated tax wrong on my purchase, then I’m wronged. If Company X calculated tax wrong on *everyone’s* purchase then *everyone* is wronged. Rather all of us sue individually for $1.50 in damages, everyone teams up as a “class” and sues Company X in bulk, and if we win, we divvy up the damages. That is a class action lawsuit.
But how do you identify “everyone” in this case? Even Company X might not have a perfect list of all of their customers. So the lawyers will typically do a broad out-reach to suspected “class members” and you might randomly receive letters or advertisements in the mail from time to time asking if were a customer of Company X between ABC and DEF dates, etc.
*So if you are getting notices like that (… in your food deliveries?…) that’s what that’s about.*
Alternatively you might be talking about “getting served” which wouldn’t quite fit your question but let’s discuss *that*.
Getting served is when a special courier, called a ‘process server’, delivers you an official legal notification you are being sued and what steps you need to follow next. This is a legal confirmation process (so you can’t say “No one ever told me!” as a defense) and part of it is they need confirm you identity, which *if you suspect you’re being served* you don’t disclose. So they get you to confirm your identity *prior* to serving you. So they look for ways to trick you into admitting who you are, “I have a pizza for Ms. XBY, is that you?” “Yes, but I didn’t order a pizza” ID confirmed, bamn, you’ve been served, by the way, it’s Hawaiian, ahahaha sucker.
But that’s for when *you* are being sued, I hope for Jesus’ Eyes *you* wouldn’t have a class action lawsuit against you (how did you fuck over *that many people?)* So it’s more likely you are a business in which case ain’t no one serving *you*, they serve *the business*. Which as u/WRSaunders says, they’d just talk to your lawyers without trickery needed.
In my real-world I’ve been served plenty of times in the sense of some dude shows up to my office and says, “Hi, do you work for Company X?” “Yup sure do” “Ok, you’ve been served, please sign here”. “Cool”. “Have a nice day” “You too, thanks” and there’s no drama because we have lawyers who handle that shit.
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