Abstract
Other contributors to this panel have emphasized that economic tort cases are only a very small part of civil litigation in this country. We want to offer a counterweight to that view—true as it is—by discussing the way in which economic tort claims have come to play a large role in a very important and influential form of litigation, to which much of our litigation practice is devoted: class actions, particularly consumer class actions. In our experience, the class plaintiffs in such lawsuits almost always make economic tort claims, and those claims interact with the class-action device in important, systematic ways. In this Article, we will briefly address what happens when economic torts intersect with class actions.
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48 Ariz. L. Rev. 973 (2006)
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