Venkat Balasubramani over at Spam Notes has been covering developments in an interesting group of class actions against Blockbuster Video and Facebook. The cases arise out of Facebook’s Beacon feature, which causes news feed stories to be automatically generated about users’ purchases and other actions with online partners like Blockbuster. the plaintiffs in each of the cases allege violations of various privacy laws [...]
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In Case You Care, ClassActionBlawg Has Just Rented the Video “Class Action” Starring Gene Hackman
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged beacon, beacon settlement, blockbuster, cy pres, facebook, facebook settlement, privacy class action, privacy law on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Healthy Smoker Case Offers Lesson in Pre-Certification Legal Analysis
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Commentary, tagged healthy smoker, medical monitoring, smoker class action, tobacco class action on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Robert J. Ambrogi of Legal Blog Watch posted this article today discussing the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts’ decision holding in Donovan v. Phillip Morris USA, which recognized the viability of a claim seeking medical monitoring as a remedy for smokers who do not have lung cancer but have an increased risk of lung cancer due to their use of cigarettes. As [...]
What Should We Do With Unclaimed Class Action Funds, Pres Tell?
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, tagged award to charity, class action charity, class action judgment, class action settlement, cy pres, Martin H. Redish on October 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The cy pres doctrine has become a hot topic in class action circles in recent years. For those not familiar with the concept as used in the class action context, cy pres awards are awards to third parties, typically charities, of unclaimed settlement funds or unclaimed portions of class action judgments. (See this August 11, 2008 CAB entry discussing cy pres). In an intriguing [...]
International Securities Class Action Trial Begins
Posted in Class Action News, International Class Action Law, tagged class action trial, foreign cubed, International Class Action Law, securities class action, vivendi trial on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An international securities class action trial against French media conglomerate Vivendi International started today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. For a report on the trial’s first day, see this article by Larry Neumeister of the Associated Press. The case is somewhat unique because the class consists of investors from several European countries, including France, [...]
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More on Cy Pres
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Settlements, Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged class action settlement, common fund, cy pres, payment to charity, reversion, settlement distribution on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Over the past week, I have received two separate requests for comment on cy pres awards to charity in class action settlements. Evidently it’s on readers’ minds, so I thought I’d give some thoughts on the subject here. Cy pres distributions to charity are one of several ways of dealing with a common problem in class action settlements: [...]
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