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cblr-1712	Johnston, Jason Scott	High Cost, Little Compensation, No Harm to Deter: New Evidence On Class Actions Under Federal Consumer Protection Statutes	2017	91	.pdf	application/pdf	26515	1075	53	Further evidence that the 8.5% class compensation rate in Table 2 may be generally valid for ATM “on or at” notice cases is provided by a report from class counsel in Barreto that, as “the claim form return rate in consumer class action settlements is between 2 and 20%,” the 5% rate in Barreto (a total of 18 claimants) was “well within the average return rate in the consumer class action context.” This sample of consumer class actions is the largest yet studied whose results can be subject to replication.1 In brief summary, this Article’s empirical findings show that in at least half of the class actions in our sample, the plaintiffs 1	cache/cblr-1712.pdf	txt/cblr-1712.txt