Posts Tagged ‘cy pres’
Class Action Settlements: Ninth Circuit nixes settlement in AOL privacy suit
The United States Court of Appeals overturned a class action settlement in Nachshin v. AOL, LLC, a class action lawsuit alleging that AOL’s email ads violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and other laws. The class action settlement did not provide any recovery to class members First, the appellate court noted that the settlement would [...]
Facebook privacy class action settlement challenged
The massive privacy class action litigation against Facebook for its beacon product (similar to the Google Buzz privacy lawsuit) was supposed to be settled for $9.5 million, with about 30% of that amount going to the class action attorneys who took the case on a contingency basis. But now that settlement is under attack because [...]