On September 7, 2006, the Federal Judicial Center issued a report entitled "The Impact of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: Second Interim Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules." According to the introduction:
[T]he Federal Judicial Center has undertaken a long-term study of the impact of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) on the resources of the federal courts. The following report presents preliminary data on the number, frequency, and types of class action filing and removal activity in the federal district courts between July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2005.
Consumer Law & Policy Blog provides a more detailed summary of the report.
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