Editing Class action (section)

=== Statistics ===
As of 2010, there was no publicly maintained list of nonsecurities class-action settlements,<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|title = An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards|journal = Journal of Empirical Legal Studies|date = 2010-12-01|issn = 1740-1461|pages = 811–846|volume = 7|issue = 4|doi = 10.1111/j.1740-1461.2010.01196.x|language = en|first = Brian T.|last = Fitzpatrick|s2cid = 4611237}}</ref> although a securities class-action database exists in the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse and several for-profit companies maintain lists of the securities settlements. One study of federal settlements required the researcher to manually search databases of lawsuits for the relevant records, although state class actions were not included due to the difficulty in gathering the information.<ref name=":1" /> Another source of data is [[Bureau of Justice Statistics|US Bureau of Justice Statistics]] ''Civil Justice Survey of State Courts'', which offers statistics for the year 2005.<ref>{{cite web|title=Data Collection: Civil Justice Survey of State Courts (CJSSC)|url=https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=242|website=Bureau of Justice Statistics|publisher=Office of Justice Programs|access-date=21 March 2018}}</ref>