How Transparent are Class Action Outcomes?: Empirical Research on the Availability of Class Action Claims Data

Pace, Nicholas M.; Rubenstein, William B.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1206315

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“…Pace and Rubenstein investigated distribution rates in interviews with judges, lawyers and administrators in 57 class actions, which produced usable information on 11 cases. 122 Three cases had distribution rates below 5%, two of which were below 1%; four cases had distribution rates between 20-40%; and two cases had distribution rates above 50%, one at 65% and one at 82%. The cases with the highest claiming rates had very small class sizes (a few hundred members).…”

Section: Consumer Actionsmentioning

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US Class Actions: Promise and Reality

Hodges

2015

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A 60 month European Research Council grant has been awarded to Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz for the project "European Regulatory Private Law: the Transformation of European Private Law from Autonomy to Functionalism in Competition and Regulation" (ERPL). The focus of the socio-legal project lies in the search for a normative model which could shape a selfsufficient European private legal order in its interaction with national private law systems. The project aims at a new-orientation of the structures and methods of European private law based on its transformation from autonomy to functionalism in competition and regulation. It suggests the emergence of a self-sufficient European private law, composed of three different layers (1) the sectorial substance of ERPL, (2) the general principlesprovisionally termed competitive contract lawand (3) common principles of civil law. It elaborates on the interaction between ERPL and national private law systems around four normative models: (1) intrusion and substitution, (2) conflict and resistance, (3) hybridisation and (4) convergence. It analyses the new order of values, enshrined in the concept of access justice (Zugangsgerechtigkeit).

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Section: Consumer Actionsmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Pace and Rubenstein addressed the issue of the transparency of outcomes in 2008. 157 A sample of 31 federal class action settlements confirmed that the distribution of benefits to class members in at least some cases fell far short of the ideal. A very small number of state courts made an attempt to track class actions to any degree.…”

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US Class Actions: Promise and Reality

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2015

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How Transparent are Class Action Outcomes?: Empirical Research on the Availability of Class Action Claims Data

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US Class Actions: Promise and Reality

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