To you, my very, very loyal reader (I have in mind a picture of Flight of the Conchords superfan, Mel, who by the way has her own blog):
If you really have been waiting in anticipation for this post, you really should consider therapy. However, when I began my extended hiatus in June, I did promise to resume blogging this fall, and I am a man of my word. That, and my life has recently returned to some semblance of normalcy after I had two nationwide class actions go away in a two-week period.
So, the time has come to start blogging about the exciting world of class action litigation once again. I’m in the process of dusting off the cobwebs, and you should expect to see some real content over the next few days. I have even managed to attract a guest contributor. So, if you weren’t on the edge of your seat before, you should be now. Stay tuned…
Yours truly,
Paul Karlsgodt
Welcome back, Paul! I’m looking forward to the new content.
Thanks! You don’t look at all like Mel from flight of the Conchords.
Do you know of any statistics on how many class action lawsuits are filed in state courts in Colorado?
The state judiciary doesn’t track Rule 23 motions in the statistics in its annual reports, so it is hard to track trends.
One can make some order of magnitude educated guess by ruling out non-class action eligible suits in District Court (e.g. Rule 120 motions and distaint warrant cases are not going to involve class actions, and presumably all Colorado class actions filed in state court would be filed in District Court, etc.), but, given the different procedural environment, reasoning by analogy from federal district court class action rates isn’t a very sound estimation method, and most places with reputations as class action meccas (e.g. Madison County, Illinois; California) ar also unlikely to be representative of Colorado’s state court litigation suitation.
Has the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 shifted what class actions there are in Colorado almost entirely to federal court, or is there a steady stream of class action cases being brought under the radar in the state?