Forbes
Money For Nothing: SCOTUS Could Stop Class Action Funds From Being Steered To Non-Parties
Forbes cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Competitive Enterprise Institute attorney …
The Washington Free Beacon
SCOTUS Hears Case Against Google Giving Away Settlement Money To Friends
The Washington Free Beacon cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. “This…
WSJ
Class-Action ‘Charity’ Racket
WSJ cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos. Google proposed to settle the case by…
Bloomberg News
Charities Could Be Out $5.3M If SCOTUS Rejects Google Deal
Bloomberg News cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Melissa Hoyoak and Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Frank v. Gaos. Holyoak and fellow petitioner Ted Frank…
Law 360
High Court Case Threatens Key Source Of Legal Aid Funding
Law 360 cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos case. Frank and Holyoak, the petitioners…
Legal News Line
Supreme Court Case To Decide Issue Of Class Action Funds Directed To ‘Pet Causes’
Legal News Line cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Franks and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos. The U.S. Supreme Court on…
Law360
Disputers Of Google Privacy Deal Cite 9th Circ. Award Ruling
Law360 cited CEI Senior Attorneys Ted Frank and Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos. “Challengers to Google’s $8.5 million privacy settlement, the fairness…
Law.com
Critical Mass: Roundup Trial Goes to Jury | New Expert Standard in New Jersey | 7th Circuit Fee Focus
Law.com cited CCAF and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on 7th circuit decisions regarding the Roundup trial. Since Richard Posner abruptly retired last year, the U.S. Court of…
Law360
State AGs, ABA Press High Court Over Google Privacy Deal
Law360 cited CEI’s Ted Frank and Melissa Holyoak on the Supreme Court privacy settlement with Google. Petitioners Theodore H. Frank and Melissa Ann Holyoak…
Law360
Google Privacy Deal Is ‘Clear Abuse,’ High Court Told
Law360 covers CEI’s Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. CEI Director of Litigation Ted Frank will be arguing the case before the court and representing himself,…
Mealy's
Google Privacy Class Objectors Tell High Court Cy Pres-Only Settlement is Unfair
Mealy’s covers CEI’s Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. CEI Director of Litigation Ted Frank will be arguing the case before the court and representing…
Westlaw
‘Fool for a client’? Ted Frank Goes Pro Se at SCOTUS to Pan Cy Pres Settlements
Westlaw covers CEI’s Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. CEI Director of Litigation Ted Frank will be arguing the case before the court and representing…
Legal Newsline
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Objection of $8.5M Google Settlement; Class Members Get Nothing, Funds Sent to Lawyers’ Alma Maters
Legal Newsline quoted Melissa Holyoak on cy pres abuse in class action settlements. WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Petitioners opposing Google’s settlement of a…
The Wall Street Journal
Supreme Court Will Take a Closer Look at Class Actions
The Wall Street Journal examines cases granted cert before the Supreme Court, including our case examining cy pres settlements, Frank v. Gaos. The…
The Washington Post
‘Cy Pres’ Settlement Review
The Washington Post reviews the cases granted cert by the Supreme Court, including Frank v. Gaos in which the court will examine cy pres settlements:…
Law360
Consumer Advocates Say Target Deal Excludes Millions
Law360 discusses the Target Corporation Customer Data Security Breach Litigation with Melissa Holyoak. Consumer advocates on Tuesday urged the Eighth Circuit to reverse a…
Law360
Objector to $10M Target Breach Deal Fails to Sway Judge
Law360 discusses the Target data breach case with Melissa A. Holyoak. A Minnesota federal judge held Wednesday that a $10 million deal resolving…
Cook County Record
Attorney fees clipped, class awards tripled under new deal to end Southwest drink voucher class action
Cook County Record discusses, with Melissa Holyoak, CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s objection of a Southwest settlement. At that point, the Washington,…
Legal NewsLine
Eighth Circuit reverses, remands $10 million settlement in Target data breach class action
Legal NewsLine discusses CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s important ruling in their objection to the Target data breach class action settlement. “Over…
Bloomberg BNA
$17M Target Breach Deal Imperiled by Conflict Allegations
Bloomberg BNA discusses an important ruling in CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s objection to the Target data brea Objectors to the fairness…
ABC News
Court Orders Review of Target Security Breach Settlement
ABC News and the Associated Press report on CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s appeal of the Target data breach settlement. A Minnesota…
Courthouse News Service
Objection to Google’s $8.5M Privacy Deal
Courthouse News Service reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to a judge's ruling that Google should pay $8.5 million to settle the suit, because…