Court Cases

• 09-15-2017
• 10-MD-2196
• Court Level: District

On November 12, 2015, the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) at CEI filed an objection in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District…

Class Action Fairness

• 02-26-2010
• 749 F. Supp. 2d 1052 (C.D. Cal. 2010).
• Court Level: District

The Center for Class Action Fariness’s client objected to this settlement over fuel-economy advertising because plaintiffs’ lawyers sought nearly $3M for themselves and merely coupons…

Class Action Fairness

• 10-23-2009
• 266 F.R.D. 418 (N.D. Cal. 2009)
• Court Level: District

In this settlement over a data security breach, plaintiffs’ lawyers were seeking $1.87M for themselves and only vouchers for the class: the district court upheld…

Class Action Fairness

• 06-04-2014
• No. 3:06-CV-00545-LRH-RAM, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68984 (D. Nev. Jun. 27, 2011)
• Court Level: District

The Center’s client objected to this settlement over car rental fees wherein plaintiffs’ lawyers sought $1.5M for themselves but only coupons for the class; the…

Class Action Fairness

• 03-31-2010
• 706 F. Supp. 2d 766 (N.D. Ohio 2010)
• Court Level: District

In this settlement over insurance pricing, the Center’s client objected that plaintiffs’ lawyers sought $6.6M when the class would only receive $2.8M; in response, the…

Class Action Fairness

• 06-15-2012
• No. 09-cv-0045-RAJ, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 83480 (W.D. Wash Jun. 15, 2012)
• Court Level: District

The Center’s client objected to a settlement over deceptive advertising that promised over $1M to plaintiffs’ lawyers and about $100,000 to the class. The court…

Class Action Fairness

• 06-13-2012
• 687 F.3d 314 (7th Cir. 2012)
• Court Level: Appellate

The Center objected to this shareholder-derivative settlement offering no value to shareholders and $925,000 to plaintiffs’ lawyers. The district court denied the Center’s motion to intervene,…

Class Action Fairness

• 11-21-2011
• 663 F.3d 1034 (9th Cir. 2011)
• Court Level: Appellate

This settlement over email advertising inappropriately channeled settlement funds to third parties unrelated to the class. The Ninth Circuit sustained the Center’s objection and reversed…

Class Action Fairness

• 08-19-2011
• 654 F.3d 935 (9th Cir. 2011)
• Court Level: Appellate

Plaintiffs sued three manufacturers of Bluetooth headsets alleging consumer fraud for failure to adequately warn of hearing loss risk. CCAF objected to the settlement that…

Class Action Fairness

• 08-04-2015
• No. 11-md-2221 (E.D.N.Y.)
• Court Level: District

The Center for Class Action Fairness successfully objected to the settlement of an antitrust case where the class would only receive injunctive relief of uncertain…

Class Action Fairness

• 08-10-2015
• No. 12-md-2320 (D.N.H.)
• Court Level: District

In this action, Plaintiffs allege that defendant falsely marketed an ingredient in its antibacterial soap as eliminating 99% of germs. CCAF objected to the settlement…

Class Action Fairness

• 09-15-2017
• No. 14-md-2522-PAM (D. Minn.)
• Court Level: District

CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness objected to an unfair settlement deal resulting from the much-publicized 2013 data breach at retail giant Target Corporation. Forty-one…

Class Action Fairness

• 12-04-2017
• No. 15-16280 (9th Cir.), appeal from, No. 3:07-cv-05634-CRB (N.D. Cal.).
• Court Level: Appellate

The Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) at CEI filed an appeal brief in the Transpacific Passenger Air Transportation Antitrust Litigation on November 4, 2015,…

CEI Litigation

• 04-30-2018
• No. 15-15858 (9th Cir.), appeal from No. 10-cv-04809-EJD (N.D. Cal.)
• Court Level: Appellate

In the original case, Gaos v. Google, plaintiffs sued Google seeking trillions of dollars in statutory damages for alleged federal privacy violations over their search…

CEI Litigation

• 05-19-2016
• No. 14-2006 (4th Cir.), appeal from 11-cv-754 (JRS) (E.D. Va.)
• Court Level: Appellate

CEI appealed the district court’s approval of a settlement over data marketing practices, from which class members cannot even opt out, and under which class…

Class Action Fairness

• 03-21-2016
• Court Level: Appellate

CCAF objected in Poertner v. Gillette Co., a settlement of consumer fraud claims over Duracell batteries where the attorneys received $5.7 million and the class…

CEI Litigation

• 08-20-2015
• No. 13-3264, 799 F. 3d 701 (7th Cir. 2015), appeal from No. 11-cv-8176 (N.D. Ill.)
• Court Level: District

The Center’s client objected to a settlement over Southwest drink coupons given to “Business Select” passengers as a perk. Thanks to the Center’s involvement in…

Class Action Fairness

• 08-26-2013
• No.14-15595 (9th Cir.), appeal from No. 11-cv-01726 (RS) (N.D. Cal.)
• Court Level: District

Fraley, et al. v. Facebook, Inc., et al. was a class action lawsuit against Facebook in 2011 alleging the company used Facebook users’ names, pictures, and identities without…

CEI Litigation

• 02-21-2017
• Court Level: Supreme Court

In Blackman v. Gascho, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sought Supreme Court review for a challenge to a lopsided class action settlement agreement that left…

Class Action Fairness

• 11-18-2013
• No. 13-169, 134 S. Ct. 402 (2013)
• Court Level: Supreme Court

The Center initially objected to this settlement because, among other problems, its value to class members did not justify the $13M attorneys’ fees request.  Ultimately,…

Class Action Fairness

• 11-04-2013
• No. 13-136, 134 S. Ct. 8 (2013)
• Court Level: Supreme Court

The Center was retained to petition the Supreme Court for review of a settlement that gave $0 for the class, $3.2M to the attorneys, and…

Class Action Fairness

• 04-11-2013
• No. 09-md-2023 (BMC) (JMA), (E.D.N.Y. Apr. 11, 2013)
• Court Level: District

As a result of the Center’s objection, the parties modified the settlement to increase direct payments to the class by over $5.8M. Our second objection…

Class Action Fairness

• 02-19-2013
• 708 F.3d 163 (3d Cir. 2013)
• Court Level: Appellate

This case involved a settlement of consolidated antitrust class actions brought by consumers against retailers Toys “R” Us, Babies “R” Us and several baby product…

Class Action Fairness

• 05-15-2013
• 716 F.3d 1173 (9th Cir. 2013)
• Court Level: District

The Ninth Circuit held that the Class Action Fairness Act requires that when class members obtain coupons in a settlement, the lawyers’ fees attributable to those…

Class Action Fairness

• 08-02-2013
• 724 F.3d 713 (6th Cir. 2013)
• Court Level: Appellate

CCAF objected to this $0 settlement between Proctor & Gamble Company and consumers who purchased certain kinds of Pampers diapers where class counsel requested $2.73…

Class Action Fairness

• 10-26-2012
• No. 10-cv-2033, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167066 (D.N.J. Nov. 25, 2013)
• Court Level: District

The Center objected to a settlement that paid the class $0, established meaningless corporate governance changes, and paid the attorneys over $10 million: the court…

Class Action Fairness

• 03-20-2017
• 16-2850
• Court Level: Appellate

In 2013, CCAF (now part of CEI) objected to the fees in a securities class action in which class counsel sought an outsized percentage of…

Class Action Fairness

• 08-07-2013
• No. 1:07-cv-10329 (RJS), 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 113658 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 7, 2013)
• Court Level: District

The Center represented a shareholder objecting to a securities class action wherein the $16.5M plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fee request was 4.2 times their normal billing rate.

Class Action Fairness

• 06-27-2013
• 991 F. Supp. 2d 181, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 158599 (D.D.C. Nov. 6, 2013)
• Court Level: District

The district court sustained the Center’s objection to a settlement over shampoo labeling where the class would receive valueless injunctive relief and the attorneys sought…

Class Action Fairness

• 04-24-2014
• 571 Fed. Appx. 560 (9th Cir. Apr. 24, 2014) (unpublished)
• Court Level: District

In this settlement over Apple power adapters, the district court failed to appraise class relief compared to the $3M that the settlement awarded to plaintiffs’…

Class Action Fairness

• 09-19-2014
• 768 F.3d 622 (7th Cir. 2014)
• Court Level: Appellate

Plaintiffs sought statutory damages for RadioShack’s practice of printing expiration dates on credit card receipts. CCAF objected to a settlement that paid $1 million to…

Class Action Fairness

• 06-26-2018
• 772 F.3d 778 (7th Cir. 2014)
• Court Level: Appellate

The Center became involved in the case in 2014 when it objected to a class action settlement that would have provided attorneys $4.5 million but…

CEI Litigation

• 05-12-2015
• No. 1:13-cv-0369 (KPF) (S.D.N.Y. May 12, 2015)
• Court Level: District

In a false advertising case, the Center objected to the settlement that gave class counsel $4.75M because it was based on an exaggerated value ($18.5M)…

Class Action Fairness

• 02-12-2015
• 12-cv-10064 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 12, 2015)
• Court Level: District

CCAF’s client objected to a fee request where class counsel sought 30% of the $75.4 million settlement fund in a lightly-litigated Telephone Consumer Protection Act…

Class Action Fairness

• 01-08-2015
• 775 F.3d 1060 (8th Cir. 2015)
• Court Level: Appellate

After money from the settlement of a securities class action was distributed to the nationwide shareholder class, $2.7 million was left over. Instead of redistributing…

Class Action Fairness

• 10-04-2018
• 16-56307
• Court Level: Appellate

In 2013, CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness objected to and then appealed the approval of a nationwide class settlement where 0.2% of the class received…

CEI Litigation

• 09-06-2017
• No. 15-3228 (10th Cir.); No. 07-MD-1840-KHV (D. Kan.)
• Court Level: Appellate

CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness appealed the approval of several settlements in multi-district litigation concerning the sale of motor fuel, which has been ongoing…

Class Action Fairness

• 08-10-2016
• 832 F. 3d 718 (7th Cir. 2016)
• Court Level: Appellate

On November 5, 2015, the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) at CEI filed an objection to the unfair class action settlement in Hays v.

Class Action Fairness