Credit: Ink Drop/AdobeStock 'This Is a Recurring Problem': Objector Appeals $725M Facebook Settlement
In a May 4 opening brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, objectors said that the Facebook settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal discounted the statutory claims of 253 million class members by more than 99.7%.
May 07, 2024 at 08:08 AM
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Class Actions
What You Need to Know
- The appeal comes less than three months after the Ninth Circuit rejected similar arguments from the same objector lawyers in a $90 million class action settlement with Facebook about tracking user activity on other websites.
- Objectors also argued that the lawyers should receive closer to $81.2 million, rather than the $180 million awarded to them.
- Last year, a federal judge sanctioned Facebook and its law firm, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, for discovery tactics designed to stonewall and gaslight the plaintiffs.
Two class members in Facebook's $725 million privacy settlement asked an appeals court to reverse approval of the deal, which they insist awarded class members less than 0.3% of their potential statutory damages.
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