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- Title: Class Action "Cops": Public Servants Or Private Entrepreneurs?(The Civil Trial: Adaptation and Alternatives)
- Author : Stanford Law School
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 336 KB
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INTRODUCTION Recent surveys indicate growing public distrust of the class action device. Initially intended as a means of resolving numerous commonly grounded controversies through a single lawsuit, class actions are now widely perceived as little more than a money generator for attorneys. This perception should not be surprising, given the emerging pattern of class action settlements (particularly in state courts) in which virtually all of the recovered money flows to the class attorneys, rather than the allegedly injured class members.