#class-action-settlement

#class-action-settlement

If you're a current or former AT&T customer, the deadline to file a claim to be part of the $177 million class-action settlement over two major data breaches has been extended. The breaches -- one dating back to 2019 and a second in 2024 -- exposed Social Security numbers, call and text records, names, addresses, dates of birth, and more.

According to the order, the court finds the settlements fair, reasonable, and adequate, and that they were negotiated at arm's-length by experienced counsel acting in good faith, including in several cases, mediation with a nationally recognized and highly experienced mediator. The order also notes that there has been adequate opportunity for discovery for experienced counsel to evaluate the claims and risks at this stage of the litigation, and that the class representatives have adequately represented the classes.

"This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery," said plaintiffs' attorney Justin Nelson. "It is the first of its kind in the AI era."

believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation.

In what's potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay "at least" a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately $3,000 per book or work. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said it's "believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation."

Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes that was experiencing engine trouble dumped its fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods near Los Angeles. The Delta jet had departed from Los Angeles to Shanghai on Jan. 14, 2020 when it needed to quickly return to Los Angeles International Airport.

Delta Air Lines has agreed to a $78.75 million class-action settlement with Los Angeles County residents whose homes, schools and properties were doused with jet fuel when a Delta Boeing 777 dumped 15,000 gallons over a populated area in January 2020. The settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, includes a $78.75 million compensation fund along with a technical testing program intended to address claims that the fuel drop hurt local property values due to stigmas of contamination.

Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a long-running lawsuit by parents and their children claiming its YouTube video app collected data from millions of U.S. kids under 13 so it could target them with ads. The Mountain View digital advertising and search giant manipulated children using their personal information into extending their time on YouTube, which in turn increased the number of targeted advertisements shown to them, and increased the revenue earned by Google,