The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped short of prohibiting a form of class action settlements in which funds awarded go to unrelated third parties and lawyers but not to the parties making ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices divide on an internet privacy case involving Google (GOOG +5.3%)(GOOGL +5.5%) and whether to restrict a type of class action lawsuit settlement that awards money to ...

(Reuters) - There’s a lot of sound and fury in the class action bar about the propriety of so-called cy pres-only settlements, in which all of the settlement money goes to charity instead of to class ...

(Reuters) - Class action settlements that deliver money only to nonprofits instead of class members have become vanishingly rare, with only a handful proposed in the last several years. And now a new ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped short of prohibiting a form of class action settlements in which funds awarded go to unrelated third parties and lawyers but not to the parties making ...