The short life and long afterlife of the mass tort class action

TY - JOUR

T1 - The short life and long afterlife of the mass tort class action

AU - Marcus, David

N1 - Funding Information: 244 The Contract With America Congress enacted securities fraud class action reform, and it passed legislation prohibiting lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corporation from litigating class actions. E.g., Myriam Gilles, The Day Doctrine Died: Private Arbitration and the End of Law, 2016 U. ILL. L. REV. 371, 386 (2016) (describing proposals to “stem the endless tide of litigation”); Alan W. Houseman & Linda E. Perle, Securing Equal Justice for All: A Brief History of Civil Legal Assistance in the United States, CTR. FOR LAW & SOC. POLICY 36-37 (2013) (describing Congressional and internal efforts to weaken the Legal Services Corporation), http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/Securing-Equal-Justice-for-All-2013-Revision.pdf [https://perma.cc/62K3-J4ZJ]. 245 E.g., COFFEE, supra note 131.

PY - 2017/6

Y1 - 2017/6

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M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85036526395

SN - 0041-9907

VL - 165

SP - 1565

EP - 1597

JO - University of Pennsylvania Law Review

JF - University of Pennsylvania Law Review

IS - 7

ER -