In order to assist class action defense attorneys anticipate the types of lawsuits 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 May 20 – 26, 2011, during which time a relatively low number of new class actions (41) were filed in these courts; we note, however, that this number is more in line with the total number of class actions filed in past years, as opposed to the very large number filed each week this year. Of these 41 class actions, 21 involved employment-related claims (representing 51% of the total number of new class actions filed). The only other category to break the 10% threshold involved class actions alleging violations of California’s Song-Beverly statute (which prohibits requesting personal identifiable information at point of sale in debit or credit card transactions) with 5 new filings, representing 12% of the total number of new class actions filed this past week.
Comments are closed.