While consumer protection cases have been on
an overall decline over most of the past decade, there was an
increase in general consumer protection cases, class action cases,
TCPA cases, and data breach cases in 2023
MENLO
PARK, Calif., July 3, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a
LexisNexis company, today releases its 2024 Consumer Protection
Litigation Report. The report examines consumer protection
litigation trends in federal district and appellate courts.
Focusing on the three-year period from 2021 to 2023, it surveys
emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms,
attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and
damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g.,
filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general consumer
protection cases, class action cases, FCRA cases, FDCPA cases, TCPA
cases, data breach cases, and consumer protection appellate
cases.
"Consumer protection litigation is a complex and multi-faceted
area of law that involves a broad spectrum of possible underlying
claims," said Laura Hopkins,
Lex Machina's consumer protection
legal data expert and editor of the report. "In our report, we
leverage Lex Machina's diverse and
nuanced filters to slice the data and analytics in order to gain
crucial data-driven insights into the different subsets of consumer
protection cases that matter most to practitioners."
Findings from the report include:
- In 2023, 14,515 consumer protection cases were filed in federal
district courts.
- In the three-year period from 2021 to 2023, the highest number
of consumer protection cases was filed in the Central District of
California, while Judge Burroughs
from the District of Massachusetts
was the most active judge for consumer protection cases.
- Individual plaintiffs dominated the lists of the most active
plaintiffs, the vast majority filing cases that involved claims
under the TCPA.
- Credit reporting companies comprised the bulk of the most
active defendants, defending in cases that primarily involved
claims under the FCRA.
- In the three-year period from 2021 to 2023, Atlas Consumer Law
was the most active law firm representing plaintiffs in consumer
protection cases, while Jones Day
represented defendants in the highest number of consumer protection
cases.
- For consumer protection cases that were appealed to a federal
appellate court and terminated from 2021 to 2023 with a decision on
the merits of the appeal, 30% were ultimately reversed.
- $13 billion in total damages were
awarded as Approved Class Action Settlements from 2021 to
2023.
Lex Machina's reports and
software enable practitioners to devise data-driven litigation
strategies. The metrics in this report can help readers decide who
to pursue as clients, whether to file a particular motion, or when
to settle (and for how much). This research supplements traditional
legal research and anecdotal data for a competitive edge in
court.
Register here for a copy of the report:
https://pages.lexmachina.com/2024-Consumer-Protection-Report_LP.html
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business and practice of law. The company provides strategic
insights on judges, lawyers, law firms, parties, and other critical
information across 22 federal practice areas and a rapidly growing
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allows law firms and companies to anticipate the behaviors and
outcomes that different legal strategies will produce, enabling
them to win cases and close business.
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Bay Area 2022), "Legal Tech Company of the Year 2021" (CIO Review,
2021), "2021 Legal Technology Trailblazer" (National Law Journal
Trailblazer Awards, 2021), and Winner of the "Media Excellence"
Award for Analytics/Big Data (13th Annual Media Excellence Award,
2021). Based in Silicon Valley, Lex
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