Add to ORKGThe class action is one of the most controversial procedural devices in the American legal system. In the years since an expanded class action rule was adopted in 1966, class actions have grown in scope and number, and suits by consumers have accounted for an increasing share of class actions suits. By allowing individuals to sue not only for themselves, but also on behalf of others similarly situated, the class action “empowers plaintiffs to bring cases that otherwise either would not be possible or would only be possible in a very different form.” Business critics see this as enabling “lawyers [to] seek out opportunities to bring these large-scale suits in the expectation that they will receive large fees, whether or not the suit has unde...
It is reasonable to expect that courts will demonstrate great solicitude for the recent innovation t...
From their origins until the present date, class actions have rested on the assumption that those wi...
The author looks at emergence of class actions in Canadian litigation and considers the extent to wh...
The class action is one of the most controversial procedural devices in the American legal system. I...
Most historians date the “modern” class action to the 1966 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil ...
I start from the view that small-value consumer claims are a primary reason that class actions exist...
The class action has many uses. The most compelling occurs when someone inflicts a small harm on eac...
Today, virtually everyone has a proposal for reforming class action litigation but both consensus ...
Consumers with similar claims in the United States (U.S.) often join forces to launch representative...
In 1967, Judge Marvin Frankel of the United States District Court for Southern District of New York ...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Class actions have frustrated many American businesses for years. These lawsuits enable individual p...
Aggregate litigation’s potential as a tool for the disempowered is not being realized. Class actions...
Professor Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was part of a panel on Reforming the Consumer Class Action. This...
As a procedural device the class action has a respectably long history and, from its beginnings, has...
It is reasonable to expect that courts will demonstrate great solicitude for the recent innovation t...
From their origins until the present date, class actions have rested on the assumption that those wi...
The author looks at emergence of class actions in Canadian litigation and considers the extent to wh...
The class action is one of the most controversial procedural devices in the American legal system. I...
Most historians date the “modern” class action to the 1966 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil ...
I start from the view that small-value consumer claims are a primary reason that class actions exist...
The class action has many uses. The most compelling occurs when someone inflicts a small harm on eac...
Today, virtually everyone has a proposal for reforming class action litigation but both consensus ...
Consumers with similar claims in the United States (U.S.) often join forces to launch representative...
In 1967, Judge Marvin Frankel of the United States District Court for Southern District of New York ...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Class actions have frustrated many American businesses for years. These lawsuits enable individual p...
Aggregate litigation’s potential as a tool for the disempowered is not being realized. Class actions...
Professor Elizabeth Chamblee Burch was part of a panel on Reforming the Consumer Class Action. This...
As a procedural device the class action has a respectably long history and, from its beginnings, has...
It is reasonable to expect that courts will demonstrate great solicitude for the recent innovation t...
From their origins until the present date, class actions have rested on the assumption that those wi...
The author looks at emergence of class actions in Canadian litigation and considers the extent to wh...