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Re: Reviews on Resorts (by KC):

adahiscout has asked, quoted in pertinent part: >> Would you mind explaining this "class certification" business to those of us who are not lawyers?<< =======================================

In what will be my first and LAST posting of viewpoint or opinion on any matter of law, I'll give it a try:

The defendant in a class action suit (RCI in this one) can challenge (and RCI HAS challenged) the "standing" or "vailidity" of the plaintiffs (the class / group members) filing the suit. In order to now prove their legal "standing" and "vaildity" and have the class officially "certified" before the case can proceed forward, the "class" (plaintiffs) must now, because of the RCI challenge, now formally and satisfactorily prove itself to the judge to comprise actual RCI members; members who openly assert having been negatively impacted in some specific and demonstrable way by the defendants' (RCI) actions.

Since it strains belief that the plaintiffs would file suit in the first place without clearly knowing that they have such validity and standing right from the outset when first filing suit, RCI now contesting the class "certification" might be seen (by a cynical onlooker....) to be nothing more than a stalling tactic.

That same (hypothetical, cynical) uninvolved onlooker might then further speculate that the "stall" could be for the defendants and their lawyers to busily work on the terms of a settlement agreement to promptly present to the plaintiffs immediately after class certification is (inevitably??) granted. Or perhaps just to have more time to prepare for a trial, if they actually believe they can "defend and win"? Or, a REAL cynic might theorize, RCI might even just be borrowing themselves more time in order to purge / sanitize its records before those records are demanded for presentation in "discovery" proceedings, which would happen right after class certification was granted. I don't, not for one moment, profess or claim to know....

Again, the truth and the facts --- not Internet speculation --- hopefully will ultimately prevail. I just hope that any pre-trial settlement agreement (if that's what ultimately happens) not only satisfies plaintiffs' past harm, but also clearly identifies and requires a specific and detailed "clean up your act" mandatory program for RCI to adopt going forward.