Coupon No Bar to Web Merchant Settlement Where Cash Reimbursement Also Offered

Feb. 6, 2013, 10:45 PM UTC

An up to $38 million settlement resolving claims involving alleged automatic enrollment of online consumers in a rewards program secured final approval from a federal trial court in California Feb. 4 despite an objection that the settlement included an excessive attorneys’ fees award and an improper cy pres distribution (Easysaver Rewards Litigation, In re, S.D. Cal., No. 09-cv-2094-AJB).

Judge Anthony J. Battaglia of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California also rejected the objector’s contention that a component of the settlement, a $20 credit to be used at online merchant websites, are coupons with a ...

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