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The overall number of class action suits pending last year in federal courts was 3,500 wherein practically half of them deal with civil rights. Comparing with the 25,000 personal injury cases that had been also pending, half of the 3,500 instances constitute about three percent of all federal civil cases. Studied by the American College of Trial Lawyers was the single largest adjudicator of federal class action suits which is the Southern District of New York was founded that the number filed annually increased practically four times in five years.
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