FindLaw Class Action and Mass Tort Center: Legal Research: Class Actions in a Nutshell

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Chapter 11. Special Focus on Mass Tort, Employment Discrimination, and Securities Fraud Class Actions

I. Mass Torts

    A. Judicial Trends in Mass Torts Class Actions

        � 11.1 Mass Torts in the 1960s and 1970s

        � 11.2 Mass Torts in the Mid-1980s

        � 11.3 Recent Judicial Skepticism

        � 11.4 Responses to Judicial Skepticism

    B. Other Issues in Mass Tort Cases

        � 11.5 Exposure-Only Claimants

        � 11.6 "Mature" Versus "Immature" Mass Torts

        � 11.7 Problems of Classwide Proof in Mass Tort Cases

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