LexisNexis Data Sales Class Settlement Upheld

A certified class settlement over LexisNexis’s sale of personal data reports to debt collectors is valid, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Dec. 4 (Berry v. LexisNexis Risk & Info. Analytics Grp., Inc., 2015 BL 398550, 4th Cir., 14-2006, 12/4/15).

An appeal by three objecting groups comprising 27,495 class members was rejected in an opinion by Judge Pamela A. Harris.

The settlement reached by LexisNexis Risk and Information Analytics Group Inc., Seisent Inc. and Reed Elsevier Inc.—which involved 31,000 members in one class and approximately 200 million people in another class—was properly structured under ...