Follow POL on Twitter More than a thousand a year are filed in the nation's largest state, according to a new survey (leads to PDF) by lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers for the Civil Justice Association of California. The largest categories are employment (47 percent) and consumer (36 percent) class actions, and just over half (51 percent) were filed in Los Angeles County.
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| Rafael Mangual Project Manager, Legal Policy rmangual@manhattan-institute.org |
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