On February 8, 2023, Judge Robert B. Kugler of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey granted a motion to certify an “economic loss” class of purchasers of Valsartan-containing...				
					Category: Class Actions
					On September 28, 2022, Judge Anna M. Loftus of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (Chancery) granted final approval to a $100 million class action settlement in Rivera v. Google LLC. The settlement followed more than...				
					
					On August 3, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted preliminary settlement approval to a class defined as: “All persons in the United States who installed the Facebook Messenger and Facebook Lite apps for Android, and granted Facebook / Meta permission to access their contacts.” The case is captioned Olin et al. v. Facebook, Inc., Case No. 18-cv-01881-RS....				
					
									
					July 19, 2022				
				
							
						Payment Sent to Western Digital Class Members
					On June 15, 2022, payments were sent to class members as part of the $5.7 million settlement in Malone, et al. v. Western Digital Corporation.  The settlement was approved by Judge Nathaniel P. Cousins of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on December 22, 2021.  After a pro-rata upward adjustment, class members who submitted claims will receive approximatel...				
					
									
					October 13, 2021				
				
							
						Payment Sent to Golden Entertainment Class Members
					On August 10, 2021, payments were sent to class members as part of the $4.55 million settlement in Miranda, et al. v. Golden Entertainment (NV), Inc. The settlement was approved by Judge Andrew P. Gordon of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada on May 12, 2021, and provides to class members (i) up to $200 in documented, out-of-pocket expenses stemming from the data breach (u...				
					
									
					October 5, 2020				
				
							
						Payment Sent to Playboy Class Members
					On September 16, 2020, payments were sent to class members as part of the $3.85 million settlement in Kokoszki v. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. The settlement was approved by Judge Bernard A. Friedman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on August 19, 2020, and provides for cash payments to class members of approximately $110 each.
“We are thrilled that the s...				
					
									
					August 25, 2020				
				
							
						Kotex Class Action Settlement Approved
					On July 22 2020, Judge Christopher Kolker of the 20th Judicial Circuit Court for St. Clair County, Illinois granted final approval to the class action settlement in Moore v. Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.  The settlement provides over $11 million in benefits to the Class.  Bursor & Fisher filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Kimberly-Clark manufactured and sold defective U by Kotex® Ta...				
					
									
					July 20, 2020				
				
							
						Payment Sent to ExamSoft Class Members
					On July 15, 2022, payments were sent to class members as part of the $2.25 million settlement in Frederick, et al. v. ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc.  The settlement was approved by Judge David E. Schwartz of the Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois on April 7, 2022, and provides class members automatic payments of a pro-rated share of the settlement fund, depending on whether the student took an e...				
					
					On April 17, 2020, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers granted Bursor & Fisher’s application for a 33.33% fee award on the $267 million trial verdict in Perez v. Rash Curtis, awarding attorney’s fees just over $89 million. A copy of Judge Gonzalez-Rogers’ order can be found here.
“The court recognized the result we achieved was ‘extraordinarily good,’ more than triple the largest TCP...				
					
					  On March 23, 2020, Judge Joseph N. Laplante of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire largely denied Sig Sauer’s motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that its popular P320...