Class Action Litigation to protect consumers

Over the years I have thought about all the great class actions out there against large corporation that are simply not responsible to or responsive to consumers.

The Fixer in the SunTimes does a great job, but sometimes, lawyers have to look at litigation, and in particular, class action litigation.

So fi you're a lawyer on your own, struggling to make ends meet, or if you are out of work, here are some things to look at that I have noticed:

1) My Minolta repair man tells me there is a spate of failures of motherboards in copiers. I don't understand that, because these machines are priced at $7500 to $10,000 and up! And a lousy component like a mother board fails? I think even the hard drives they put in there are not imaged or backed up so that the consumer can just slap in another one if the hard drive fails. Great class action. Contact me if you have been damaged by the failure of a Minolta or other copier motherboard and I will save your information and if we get enough plaintiffs, I can file suit and help this problem.

2) My class action against Chase in Illinois for overdraft fees. I would like to add in other banks because they do the same things and violate federal laws that say that, in essence, according to the OCC or Office of Control and Currency (Bank Examiners) that these fees must be set fairly to both the bank and the consumer. Discovery in numerous cases has shown that is not in fact the case. Tons of documents and emails have been uncovered in the banks figuring out ways to "be more profitable" on these fees or "get more from the consumer" but NONE, read NONE have been found discussing ways to be fair to the consumer.

3) A possible class action against the University of Illinois. My son was a few days late on a tuition bill of a few hundred dollars and the U of I in Champagne charge a $50 late fee. $50!!!!! that's insane. We're supposed to promote education, incentivize children to get college degrees, and what do we do? We scam them and their parents. Teach them it's okay to be greedy like that and violate the law. The law provides that when a contract is breached all the aggrieved party gets is actual damages. The current fed rate on short term t-bills is about .5%. Why don't they charge that?

I'll post other possible unfair to consumer and small business situations as they are pointed out to me.