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 June 3 – 9, 2011, during which time 52 new class actions were filed in these courts. Labor law class actions retained the top spot, but still do not commonly reach the 50% mark of past years. During this reporting period, for example, only 23 of the new class actions filed involved employment-related claims (44% 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 7 new filings (13% of the total number of new class actions filed).
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