Court Appoints Special Master to Investigate Overbilling in Anthem Class Action

“I would never have appointed you…had I known you were going to pile on 53 law firms on this case,” Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California reportedly told class counsel Thursday in the data privacy settlement of In re Anthem, Inc. Data Breach Litigation. Judge Koh agreed with a motion filed by the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness that a special master should be appointed to investigate…

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Frank Bednarz
February 5, 2018
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CCAF Objects to Attorneys Taking One-Third of IKEA Contractor Settlement Dollars

The Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) objected to the settlement in Leung et al. v. XPO Logistics, Inc. yesterday, arguing that the plaintiffs’ attorneys are attempting to overpay themselves by taking over 34 percent of the recovery, or $2.33 million of the $6.75 million class relief.

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January 31, 2018
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CCAF Fights Facebook Settlement that Pays Consumers Nothing, Lawyers Get Nearly $4 Million

Today, the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) filed its opening appellate brief opposing a Facebook class action settlement that provides $3.9 million for attorneys, while class members receive nothing more than a vague 22-word addition to Facebook’s “Help Center.”

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January 25, 2018
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Google Settlement: How Class Action Abuse Gives Money to Attorneys and Third Parties, Leaving Consumers with Nothing

In In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation, Google settled for $8.5 million, but class members (including me) will see none of that money.

Melissa Holyoak
January 3, 2018
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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
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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
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