To assist class action defense attorneys anticipate the types of cases against which they will have to defend in California, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We include only those categories that include 10% or more of the class action filings during the relevant time frame. This report covers the time period from April 22 – 28, 2011, during which time the total number of class actions filed in these courts dropped to more “normal” levels. There were 69 new class actions were filed in these courts during this reporting period, and 26 of them (38% of the total number of new class actions filed) involved employment-related claims. The only other category to break the 10% threshold involved class actions alleged violations of California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL), which includes false advertising claims, with 13 new filings (19% of the total number of new class actions filed).
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