That doesn’t happen every day: a non-profit shop, Ted Frank’s excellent Center for Class Action Fairness, has two cert petitions pending in the Supreme Court, and both are on this week’s re-list watch. Marek v. Lane presents the question of whether a class action settlement that provides cy prez relief that’s of absolutely no use to the class—and no other relief to that class—is nonetheless fair, adequate, and reasonable. Answer, no. (I’ve discussed the case in an earlier post.) Here’s the QP in Martin v. Blessing: Whether an objecting class member – whose antitrust claims have been waived by a settlement negotiated by…
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Class Action Twofer
by Michael S. Greve|