With a "judicial cert petition" already in hand from the Ninth Circuit, an objecting class member formally challenged a Facebook privacy settlement at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, saying the $9.5 million settlement provided zero benefit to the class.
"Bringing suit within the Ninth Circuit's footprint now guarantees that minor things like compensating class members for their injuries, holding defendants liable to the extent the law allows, and preventing defendants from injuring class members in the exact same manner will not stand in the way of reaching a quick settlement to the mutual benefit of defendants and class counsel," states the petition filed by Baker & Hostetler's David Rivkin Jr., along with attorneys from the Center for Class Action Fairness and two other law firms.
