Eleventh Circuit Clarifies Ruling on $35 Million Godaddy Deal

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reissued an opinion Tuesday tossing out Godaddy.com LLC‘s $35 million junk-text deal, but added a clarification that only 20 pages of the 112-page opinion will count as the “opinion of the court.”

A three-judge panel held May 13 in that section of the lead opinion—Section III.C.iii— that the Class Action Fairness Act applied to the settlement, and the lower court should have applied CAFA’s provisions related to the scrutiny of settlements providing coupons or vouchers rather than cash in calculating attorneys’ fees.

That was the only section of the lead ...