Book contents
- The Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The United States
- 1 The US Class Action from a Utilitarian Perspective
- 2 Civil Rights, Access to Counsel, and Injunctive Class Actions in the United States
- 3 Class Action Nuisance Suits
- 4 How Many Class Actions Are Meritless?
- 5 The Future of Aggregate Litigation in the United States
- Part II The Americas
- Part III Europe
- Part IV Asia and the South Pacific
- Part V Middle East and Africa
5 - The Future of Aggregate Litigation in the United States
from Part I - The United States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2021
- The Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The United States
- 1 The US Class Action from a Utilitarian Perspective
- 2 Civil Rights, Access to Counsel, and Injunctive Class Actions in the United States
- 3 Class Action Nuisance Suits
- 4 How Many Class Actions Are Meritless?
- 5 The Future of Aggregate Litigation in the United States
- Part II The Americas
- Part III Europe
- Part IV Asia and the South Pacific
- Part V Middle East and Africa
Summary
In 2013, I explained that, starting in the mid-1990s, federal courts began to erect significant barriers to class certification. I did not pronounce class actions dead, but I did express concern that they had been seriously eroded. Four years later, I wrote that the decline had stabilized somewhat, and noted that the Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeals had issued a surprising number of pro-plaintiff rulings.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Class ActionsAn International Survey, pp. 71 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021