by Greg Beck As Brian Wolfman previously noted on this blog, the Supreme Court's holding in Genesis HealthCare v. Symczyk—that a defendant's settlement offer to a named plaintiff defeated certification of a collective action—was based on an highly questionable assumption: that a rejected offer of judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 mooted the […]
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by Greg Beck The Ninth Circuit today upheld a district court’s decision approving a class-action settlement against Facebook over the company’s long-defunct “Beacon” program—one of the first of what turned out to be a long string of privacy fiascos for the social media company. With Beacon, Facebook teamed up with Blockbuster to post users’ video […]