Sentences with phrase «class action settlement between»

Apr. 23, 2009)(for publication) involved the $ 49 million class action settlement between BAR / BRI class members and West Publishing / Kaplan Inc..

Not exact matches

A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn gave preliminary approval to a class - action settlement in which the city agreed to pay a total of $ 5 million to 470 people who were put in solitary confinement on Rikers Island under a now - scuttled policy between Nov. 23, 2012, and Sept. 16, 2015.

In short, class action cases are not susceptible to the market - based determinants that should drive settlements of corporate claims between businesses, and therefore are not good investment targets.

Since a defendant ordinarily will not agree to such a clause without a reduction in the portion of the settlement that goes to class members, clear - sailing clauses «illustrate -LSB--RSB- the danger of collusion in class actions between class counsel and the defendant, to the detriment of class members.»

Between December 2006 and January 2007, nine courts from across Canada issued judgments certifying the class actions and approving the terms of settlement as being fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the Class Memclass actions and approving the terms of settlement as being fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the Class MemClass Members.

A class action lawsuit, filed in Florida, soon followed, with a court - appointed receiver taking control of Cryptsy's assets in the spring of 2016, setting the stage of a settlement agreement between users and Vernon's ex-spouse, who was also named in the original suit.