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On May 7, 2024 Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted final approval of the $5.4 million class action settlement in Qureshi v. American University. Bursor & Fisher filed the lawsuit in 2020 alleging that students at American University in Spring Semester 2020 were entitled to a partial refund of tuition as a result of the move to a...

Class Action Complaint Motion for Preliminary Approval Declaration of Philip L. Fraietta in Support of Motion for Preliminary Approval Declaration of D.D. in Support of Motion for Preliminary Approval Supplemental Declaration of L. Timothy Fisher in Support of Motion for Preliminary Approval Second Supplemental Declaration of L. Timothy Fisher in Support of Motio...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 October 25, 2019, payments were sent to class members as part of the $16 million settlement in Melgar v. Zicam.  The settlement was approved by Judge Morrison England of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on November 20, 2018.  112,249 class members will receive checks for an average payment of $84.82 each. “We are thrilled that settlement payments are...