AARP Video Privacy Settlement Approved With Lower Counsel Fees

AARP’s $12.5 million agreement to settle a Video Privacy Protection Act class suit over sharing information with Meta Platforms was approved by a federal court, but with a lower-than-requested attorneys’ fee award.

The original request was for 30% of the settlement fund, which is above the 25% benchmark for courts in the Ninth Circuit. “The Court rarely, if ever approves such a high percentage,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said for the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

• Rogers lowered the fee award to 25% of the settlement fund instead, or $3,125,000
• The result in the VPPA case ...