Sentences with phrase «allow class action settlements»
Cy - près awards allow class action settlements to be given to charities when there is no practical way of distributing all the funds to individual plaintiffs.
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If allowed to proceed as a class action, the 2013 lawsuit could cover more than 160,000 California drivers and give plaintiffs leverage to negotiate a settlement.
Facebook, meanwhile, recently settled a $ 20 - million class action settlement following a lawsuit over the social network's lucrative «Sponsored Stories» program that shares users» «likes» of certain advertisers with friends without paying them or allowing them to opt out.
It is seeking comments on a Report and a draft Judicial Protocol that allows courts in different provinces to work together to coordinate these competing class actions as they move toward a hearing or settlement.
The settlement last month of a multi-million-dollar real estate class action will allow 143 purchasers in a failed commercial condominium to recover almost half their original deposits after the project became insolvent.
The Court once again displayed its distaste for class - actions, with Kennedy stating that expanding causes of action in securities litigation would damage the economy and «would allow plaintiffs with weak claims to extort settlements from innocent companies.»