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There is no way they win that if enough people do it. It's so much overhead that the small plaintiff is at a substantial cost-benefit advantage even if they send fresh grad associates by the busload to small claims courts around the country. The Zerg Rush attack might be the best way to tackle this problem ... until of course Equifax gets Congress to pass some kind of legislation to make it impossible to bring Equifax-related suits in Small Claims court.

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I doubt "enough" people will do it. It takes some time to prepare and to go to court. Let's say that 5000 people do it,(IMO, not realistic unless organized by someone): 5,000 X $10,000 in damages = $50 million.

Say another $20m for My Cousin Vinny Attorney at Law used to dealing with such cases, and it's not a company killing expense. That's assuming that all win. You could say that word spreads, "he won $10k so you should file too," but I doubt it.

You are only accounting for money, not time.

See, for example, what the Church of Scientology was able to do to the IRS.

Doesn't precedent work in small claims court? Serious question- I don't know. But if it does they may be entirely out of luck if they plaintiff has a solid case.

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