SCOTUS Skips Spam Text Class Case Challenging Incentive Awards

An objector to a $14.5 million spam text settlement with American Eagle Outfitters Inc. lost her bid for U.S. Supreme Court review of the use of incentive awards in class actions.

Long-standing Supreme Court precedent prohibits representatives from receiving awards that are much greater than individual class members’ recovery, objector Kara Bowes argued. Class representatives in this Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit took home $2,500 each.

The class and American Eagle waived their rights to respond to the petition.

Eric Alan Isaacson of La Jolla, Calif., and C. Benjamin Nutley of Pasadena, Calif., represent Bowes. Terrell Marshall Law represents the ...