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Part II Private International Law and Collective Redress, 12 Extraterritoriality of evidence gathering in US class action proceedings

Andrea Pinna

From: Extraterritoriality and Collective Redress

Edited By: Duncan Fairgrieve, Eva Lein

From: Oxford Legal Research Library (http://olrl.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 30 May 2023

Subject(s):
Extra-territoriality and evidence gathering — Jurisdiction — Choice of law
12.01 As in the vast majority of civil and commercial proceedings in the United States courts, the gathering of evidence through pre-trial discovery is an essential stage in class actions and is of particular relevance given that often plaintiffs do not have sufficient evidence to substantiate their claims. Examples of such a situation can be found in securities class actions where class counsel only has the information available to the public, which is per se often insufficient to substantiate the alleged violations of federal securities laws. The recent...
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