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Preliminary Report on Time Study Class Action Cases

Thomas E. Willging, Laural L. Hooper, Robert J. Niemic
February 9, 1995

A random national sample of 8,320 civil cases filed between November 1987 and January 1990 in 86 federal district courts included 51 cases involving class action allegations in the complaint or judicial action in response to class action activity. The incidence of class actions was 61 class actions per 10,000 cases.