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21 Apr 2011, 12:22 pm
Recently, I have commented on two types of objectors in class action settlements. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 4:00 am
These same objectors who appear and object to proceedings in different class actions—also known as “professional objectors,” are thought to harm the class members whose interests they claim to protect. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 4:00 am
These same objectors who appear and object to proceedings in different class actions—also known as “professional objectors,” are thought to harm the class members whose interests they claim to protect. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 3:24 pm
Johnson Plaintiff’s Class Counsel have been successfully using the threat of sanctions to ward off late game class objectors. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 9:00 pm
Objectors sometimes fail to recognize that there are often very good reasons why class action settlements are lower than the amount each class member would receive in an individual trial with a favorable result. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 6:00 am
The Court of Appeal rejected all of the objectors' challenges to the settlement and the notice provided to class members. [read post]
24 Dec 2013, 2:25 am
(The objectors, as class members, would be bound by the agreement unless they opted out, at which point they would lose standing as objectors.) [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 6:31 am
” The first step in its analysis focused on establishing that the objecting class members owed a fiduciary duty to the other class members who were similarly situated because the objectors alleged defects that affected all class members alike by binding them all to an inadequate settlement. [read post]
Litwin v. iRenew: Class Member Objecting to Settlement Need Not Be Present at Final Approval Hearing
2 Jun 2014, 8:00 am
App. 4th ---, the parties settled a nationwide consumer class action and sent notice to the members of the settlement class. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 9:07 am
The Seventh Circuit held that the objecting class members took on a fiduciary duty to the other class members who were similarly situated because the objectors alleged defects that would have injured every member of the class by binding them all to an inadequate settlement. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 6:33 pm
Professional objectors are but one of at least three groups of what many traditional plaintiffs’ attorneys would consider interlopers who seek to make a cheap buck off of someone else’s class action: 1) “Copy cat” lawyers, who file competing lawsuits in other jurisdictions 2) “Opt out” lawyers, who round up individuals to opt out of class action settlements in order to file mass actions raising the same claims 3)… [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 11:52 am
"[C]lass member and professional objector" Theodore Frank obtains the reversal of Subway Footlong sandwich class action settlement, which provided no benefits to class members but more than half a million in fees for class counsel: Circuit Judge Diane S. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 2:32 am
” Objector blackmail occurs when individual class members delay the final resolution of class action settlements by filing meritless appeals in the hope of inducing class counsel to pay them a side settlement to drop their appeals. [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 8:50 am
July 27, 2022), the Eleventh Circuit heard an appeal by an objector from a final approval of a class action settlement in a case under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 7:10 am
He tends to stay and fight settlements to the end, rather than cut quick deals, with the stated aim of righting the wrongs of the class-action system by upending settlements that he thinks give class members too little and give the plaintiffs’ lawyers too much. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 7:00 am
After notifying class members of the proposed settlement and upcoming final fairness hearing, one policyholder, the Allen Trust, objected. [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 6:14 am
First, the Court addressed Plaintiff’s argument that Illinois state courts were closed to many putative class members, and the Court therefore should retain supplemental jurisdiction to avoid unfair prejudice to the putative class as a whole. [read post]
13 Jan 2015, 9:57 pm
Members of the class who smell a rat can object to approval of the settlement. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 8:19 am
She contends that this did not provide the class members with adequate information for the members to make an informed decision about whether to participate, object, or opt out. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 9:45 am
Objectors were class members that were properly notified under the original schedule. [read post]
