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
2 - Civil Rights, Access to Counsel, and Injunctive Class Actions 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
According to a familiar story about class actions in the United States, aggregation promotes access to counsel by increasing the amount of money from which counsel fees can be taken. Courts usually award class counsel a percentage of the monetary recovery obtained on behalf of the class, and class treatment can turn a $30 case into a $3 million case. But what about class actions that do not involve monetary relief at all?
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Class ActionsAn International Survey, pp. 25 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021