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Tl;dr A group that litigated the case got all the settlement money, by design. Supreme Court is telling lower courts to curb stomp this practice.
by rolltiide 7y ago
Tl;dr A group that litigated the case got all the settlement money, by design. Supreme Court is telling lower courts to curb stomp this practice.
- perpetualpatzer 7y agoBelieve SCOTUS actually held off answering the question this year. [0] [0] https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/03/opinion-analysis-justices-sidestep-decision-on-propriety-of-cy-pres-class-action-settlements/ https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/03/opinion-analysis-justices...
- jasongill 7y agoThis wasn't a decision by the Supreme Court, so nothing was "curb stomped" here
- rolltiide 7y agooh that was a separate settlement of the same type, regarding Google, which had reached the Supreme Court, my bad.