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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | USA | 29 Mar 2019
As we predicted in a January 2019 post [Cy pres-only class settlements - anticipated Supreme Court decision may never come to pass], the United…
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McCarthy Tétrault LLP | Canada | 18 Jan 2019
Cy-près distributions disburse settlement funds or damages awards to charities or other public interest organizations in circumstances where it is…
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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | USA | 4 Jan 2019
On April 30, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a Ninth Circuit case approving a cy pres-only class action settlement. As we reported in a…
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Mayer Brown | USA | 2 Jan 2019
On November 1, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California published updated procedural guidance for class action…
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Hausfeld LLP | USA | 30 Nov 2018
The cy pres class action doctrine takes its name from the French term “cy pres comme possible” or “as near as possible.”…
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Reed Smith LLP | USA | 19 Nov 2018
We’ve always hated the concept of cy pres class action settlements. A cy pres distribution is an admission that, even without opposition, the…
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Faruki PLL | USA | 5 Nov 2018
All Hallow’s Eve proved a fitting date for oral argument in the Supreme Court of the United States in Frank v. Gaos, (S. Ct. No. 17-961), a case…
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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | USA | 10 May 2018
On April 30, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two class action cases, on issues involving cy pres awards and class arbitration. Both cases…
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Jenner & Block LLP | USA | 4 May 2018
The case, , No. 17-961, involves a pre-certification settlement of a class action against Google for alleged violations of the federal Stored…
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Jenner & Block LLP | USA | 4 May 2018
Last month, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review a decision of the Ninth Circuit approving an $8.5 million class action settlement in which…