When monthly 2017 civil filings of this type are compared with those of the same period in the previous year, their number was down (-40.6%). Civil suits for October 2017 are also lower than they were for the same period five years ago. Overall, the data show that civil filings of this type are down 70.3 percent from levels reported in October 2012.

A record number of 4,335 suits were filed during FY 2011, and since that peak the number of these suits have steadily declined. Last year only 698 suits were filed, or an average of 58 per month. The figures for the first month of FY 2018 (October 2017) thus represent a decline even from last year's average numbers.

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