Alison Frankel reports that Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action and lawyers from Baker Hostetler
filed a petition for a writ of certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to review the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ approval of a $9.5 million settlement of class action allegations that Facebook’s now-dismantled “Beacon” program violated users’ privacy by revealing their online purchases. More than $6 million of that money was directed to the establishment of a new Internet privacy foundation overseen by Facebook and the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case, who were also awarded $2.3 million in fees. Class members, meanwhile, received no direct compensation at all from the settlement. The new cert petition contends that the 9th Circuit’s split ruling in the case conflicts with cy pres decisions from the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 8th Circuits.
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