CEI Asks Court to Compel FCC to Respond to Petition on Charter Cable Merger

After over a year and a half without response from the agency, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is representing individuals taking the Federal Communications Commission to court regarding the 2016 Charter/Brighthouse/Time Warner cable merger. Arguing that the FCC has a statutory obligation to respond to CEI’s June 2016 petition, CEI today requests the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to compel the agency to fulfill its duty to…

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December 12, 2017
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CCAF Appeals Olive Oil Settlement Where Lawyers Make $1 Million, More Than Four Times the Class Recovery

On Monday evening, CCAF filed its opening appeal brief in a class action where the plaintiffs claim Filippo Berio olive oil was falsely marketed as “Imported from Italy,” when the olives used actually came from other countries.

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November 21, 2017
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Class Counsel seeks $575,000 in settlement that gives class nothing

CCAF opposed a settlement in Ma v. Harmless Harvest, a class action dispute over claims of organic products in coconut water in which class attorneys sought $575,000 and the class members get nothing.

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September 29, 2017
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Coupon Settlements: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Coupon relief is notoriously bad for consumers in class action settlements. CCAF seeks reversal of the settlement approval in EasySaver to reiterate the limited exception of Online DVD and ensure a more uniform and correct application of CAFA.

Anna St. John
September 27, 2017
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WSJ: Where Was CFPB While Wells Fargo Plundered?

F. Paul Bland asserts (Letters, Sept. 12) that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule is necessary to avoid “immunity” for Wells Fargo for creating fake accounts. Like most antiarbitration rhetoric, this is fiction. The CFPB’s antiarbitration rule isn’t even in effect, yet government authorities (not class-action lawyers) required Wells Fargo to provide full restitution for consumers, fined the bank an additional $185 million in addition to Wells Fargo losing substantial market share from…

<em>WSJ</em>: Where Was CFPB While Wells Fargo Plundered?

Ted Frank
September 22, 2017
Media Appearances

Posner Leaves ‘Enormous Imprint’ on Class Actions

“I’m confident that one day this decade a different court of appeals will disagree with one of those Posner opinions, the Supreme Court will take up the circuit split, and then tell us that Posner was right all along,” Frank said.

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Ted Frank
September 7, 2017
Media Appearances

WSJ: Congress Can Rescind the CFPB’s Gift to Trial Lawyers

Do Americans need more lawsuits? They’ll get them if the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has its way. The CFPB—created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and still run by an Obama appointee—issued a rule in July barring financial institutions from including arbitration clauses in their contracts with customers. That means disputes would have to be settled by class-action lawsuits, which mostly benefit lawyers. The agency justifies its rule by claiming it…

<em>WSJ</em>: Congress Can Rescind the CFPB’s Gift to Trial Lawyers

Ted Frank
September 6, 2017
Media Appearances

Court’s New Math in Subway Foot-Long Sub Lawsuit: Zero + Zero = Zero

"It was wonderful to see the principle vindicated," that cases without benefits to absent class members should not be certified.

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August 29, 2017
Press Highlights

Third Party Cy Pres Awards in Google Settlement Unfair to Class

The Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) today filed a reply brief in In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation arguing that the cy pres distribution in the proposed settlement is unfair to the class when direct compensation through a claims process is feasible.

Third Party <em>Cy Pres</em> Awards in Google Settlement Unfair to Class

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August 25, 2017
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Appeals Court Approves Google’s $8.5 Million Data Leak Settlement

Theodore Frank, an activist who founded the Class Action Fairness Center, objected to the deal on several grounds, including that some of them had prior relationships with Google as well as the lawyers representing the consumers.

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August 23, 2017
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