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Class Settlements
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Privacy World
Court Approves Class Action Settlement in IN RE: YAHOO! INC. CUSTOMER DATA SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION and Also Provides Helpful Guidelines to Future Class Action Settlements
By Squire Patton Boggs, Angelo Carosio
Yahoo!’s data breach class action is finally being put to rest. Last month, the Northern District of California approved the proposed $117.5M settlement to resolve the claims of approximately 194…
California Employment Law Update
Class Action Claims Were Moot After Class Representative Settled His Individual Claims
By Tony Oncidi
Brady v. AutoZone Stores, 960 F.3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2020) Michael Brady sued AutoZone Stores for alleged violations of Washington State’s meal break laws. After several years of litigation, the…
Marler Blog
A teenage runaway tries his hand at migrant work and becomes one of the most powerful food safety lawyers in the world / William Marler, Owner & Managing Partner, Marler Clark, LLP. The Good Story – When It Mattered Podcast Ep. 49 — Chitra Ragavan June 2020
By Bill Marler
When Bill Marler was 16 years old, he ran away from home and became a migrant worker for a while, living in squalid cabins, sleeping outdoors, and hitchhiking rides to farms to…
Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Turning Fees into Funds: Maximizing Recovery in the MC/Visa Interchange Fee Litigation
By Daniel A. Sasse, Deborah E. Arbabi, Charlene Sun, Christy Markos
Nearly fifteen years after a class of merchants first brought suit against Visa, MasterCard, and their member banks in the MasterCard/Visa Interchange Fee Litigation, retailers can finally see the light…
Class Actions Insider
Tendering Full Relief to Moot a Class Action: It’s Still Possible in Illinois
When a business is sued in a proposed class action and there is only a small amount at stake on the named plaintiff’s claim, often one of the first thoughts…
The D&O Diary
First Solar Settles Long-Running Securities Class Action Lawsuit for $350 Million
On January 6, 2020, solar panel company First Solar announced that it had settled the securities class action lawsuit pending against the company and certain of its executive officers for…
Litigation Finance Journal
Vocus Agrees to $35MM Settlement in Woodsford Funded Class Action
By John Freund
Vocus Agrees to $35MM Settlement in Woodsford Funded Class Action Woodsford Litigation Funding has been backing a shareholder class action against Australian phone company Vocus Group. The two sides have…
Class Actions Insider
Ninth Circuit Reverses Class Action Settlement Based on Notice Concerns and Insufficient Scrutiny
Class action settlements are complicated. They often take months to negotiate. The last thing the lawyers or their clients on either side want to happen is for the trial court…
Consumer Class Defense Blog
FTC Report Underscores the Importance of Crafting Effective Settlement Notices
The Federal Trade Commission recently published a preliminary staff report on two studies it conducted to understand the effectiveness of class action settlement notices and develop information to help improve…
Declassified
It’s None of Your Business: Sixth Circuit Says Arizona Lacks Article III Standing to Intervene to Challenge a Class Settlement
By John E. Goodman, J. Thomas Richie
Does a state, whose citizens are among the absent class members in a class action settlement, have Article III standing to challenge the supposed unfairness of the settlement? In Chapman…