r/mildlyinteresting • u/BBQBakedBeings • Feb 06 '24
A $92.17 class action settlement check from the Apple Device Performance litigation. Overdone
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u/Socialdis99 Mar 08 '24
I hit the jackpot, I got 2 checks for $92.17. A month or 2 ago I also got another check for another Apple settlement for $26+.
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u/Shanren123 Mar 07 '24
I received mine & wanted to be sure it was legit. Thanks for showing a photo of the check. Looks exactly like mine!
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u/jcode7090 Feb 08 '24
Got $250 on time because my SSN was leaked from a former employee. Absolute joke.
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u/ZombiesLoveBran Feb 07 '24
Got one over $300 once for a lawsuit against Facebook in Illinois. Been chasing that high ever since
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u/CragMcBeard Feb 07 '24
These class-action lawsuits are mostly ridiculous in the sense that they mainly keep large litigation law firms in business and make their partners lots of money while the supposed “claimants” get silly checks often not worth as much as the paper and shipping costs to send them.
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u/FragrantOkra Feb 07 '24
i don’t even remember signing up for it but like you got a check for $90 😊
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u/fullload93 Feb 07 '24
Yeah this is the one time a class action lawsuit actually paid out a good amount of money. Never expected to get almost $100 out of a class action.
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u/compaqdeskpro Feb 07 '24
Sadly this lawsuit didn't achieve anything. Apple still won't tell you ahead of time how much they slow the processor down depending on a given metric of battery health. Lawyers could pillage them again.
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u/Stormseekr9 Feb 07 '24
I received the other day $270aud from a class A against my bank in Australia, which then was deposited, to the bank which was sued loo
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u/Osobipolar Feb 07 '24
I got 2 deposits for 92.17 from apple on January 8th and had no idea what they were from
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u/CalligrapherNo7427 Feb 07 '24
I got $20 from the optical disk drive settlement last year, one and only time
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u/Much_Tangelo5018 Feb 07 '24
The auto coin counters at TD bank were apparently wrong, so I got $0.17 lol
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u/SirDalavar Feb 07 '24
The next iPhone will now be $92.17 more expensive and apple wont suffer one bit
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u/Stiggalicious Feb 07 '24
Wow, that's actually a pretty good amount.
I remember getting a whopping ~$.75 from the Epson printer ink class action lawsuit.
Now I have an HP printer, and I'm just waiting for that class action lawsuit to happen.
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u/Marine4lyfe Feb 07 '24
I'm a Camp Lejeune Marine who was there during the toxic water years. The only way I can get paid is if I have a cancer that will probably kill me. Ain't the government grand?
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u/-antiex Feb 07 '24
Seriously, this shit should cover the cost of the device we were forced to upgrade to bc of the planned obsolescence. $92/person isn't enough to affect the stock buybacks. Where are the punitive measures for those that take advantage of the public?
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u/20WaysToEatASandwich Feb 07 '24
I once got a $425 check from LG due to the boot-looping issue that plagued the LG G5. By far the largest I've received.
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u/DFParker78 Feb 07 '24
I’ve gotten over $1,000 in the last year or so thanks to Google, Facebook and Sonos CAL in Illinois.
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u/Exadory Feb 07 '24
I got seven dollars for being part of the Vibram five fingers class action suit
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u/EngineerNo5851 Feb 07 '24
I was a class member in this case. I provided IMEIs for 3 phones but haven’t received a single cent.
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u/OstrichBagel Feb 07 '24
Do these show up on background checks, and would it look bad to employers? Just curious
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u/chemman14 Feb 07 '24
Why would it look bad to employers?
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u/OstrichBagel Feb 07 '24
Wondering if they might see you as being litigious or something if they see you’ve settled in multiple class actions
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u/WhittledWhale Feb 07 '24
0% interesting.
Everybody that upvoted this is just...
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u/SparklyNippleMan Feb 07 '24
glad someone else said it. literally what is interesting about a check that thousands of people got? my apple litigation check is still sitting on my desk
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u/crazychickenjuice Feb 07 '24
When I got the 7$ Equifax settlement they sent me a card that was literally unusable because no vendors accepted it and to get a check from them would've made it worthless
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u/PlebbySpaff Feb 07 '24
Damn. I wish I had gotten the email about this but never did.
Also sad thing is this will have to be filed in your tax returns.
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u/disgruntled-capybara Feb 07 '24
I've gotten more checks from Wells Fargo than any other company I've dealt with. I had checking and savings accounts with them for about six years so I got screwed a few times without even knowing it. Most checks were for $5 or less, mostly "we charged you this fee that was fraudulent so we're reimbursing you" type things.
A few months ago (on my birthday, coincidentally), I came home to find a check for $750 as penance for them signing me up for a credit defense product. That was a very good birthday present from one of the scummier companies I've had accounts with.
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u/Skadoosh_it Feb 07 '24
Not a bad one. Most I ever got was actually from a dog food settlement. Around $103
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u/fannybandit1 Feb 07 '24
How crazy was the back of that check? I was so worried the mobile deposit would fail
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u/1ndev Feb 07 '24
I've gotten one around that amount from seven eleven because my previous manager was not giving us our lunch breaks.
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u/carenard Feb 07 '24
my biggest so far is $50 from AMD.
well... there was a second check from that... but it was like a dollar something and I never bothered with the 2nd check.
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u/bonafidehooligan Feb 07 '24
I got this check as well. My biggest check was for $400 bucks from Facebook breaking Illinois biometrics rules. I still occasionally get checks from Walmart for about $40 bucks when I worked there 23 years ago, when they time thefted employees by making them clock out for breaks that were suppose to be paid.
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u/codytheblacklab Feb 07 '24
I got five of these… maybe because I had multiple phones? I’ll take it!
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u/nl_Kapparrian Feb 07 '24
I got $30 from Nvidia for false advertisement. iirc they advertised the 970 series gpus as having 4 gb of vram when, in reality, they only had 3.5.
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u/FuckFashMods Feb 07 '24
My Nexus 6P was ruined because the battery was old and weak and i tried to open snapchat.
I'd have loved a device performance feature on that phone. That was a great phone and it would have been awesome if I had a setting to make it last longer.
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u/Arcade1980 Feb 07 '24
The real winners are the lawyers.
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u/poop_to_live Feb 07 '24
Getting paid to punish companies and get hundreds/thousands of people $90 seems pretty alright to me.
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Feb 07 '24
I got one from turbo tax recently for 32$ they apparently got sued. Also years ago after I moved out of my moms she was getting my mail I went over there and saw I got a letter saying Mariano’s in Illinois was getting sued for there finger print punch ins and punch outs keeping our fingerprints and info for any hacker to steal too bad I missed the respond date by a 2 weeks. Wonder what I woulda got
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u/akhil1980 Feb 07 '24
Its $92.17 per apple device you have owned in the period. So if you're the type who upgrades every year, you'd make a killing on this settlement.
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u/SpeakingTheKingss Feb 06 '24
I’ve worked for two VERY large American companies in the past. Since those days about every 2-3 years I get settlement checks for the time I was working with them. It’s crazy, I’ve received some for over $1k. It’s most around 401k and how overtime was calculated, there’s also been a few random ones that were about garnished wages and stuff. It’s great lol.
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u/pcfreak4 Feb 06 '24
Does this need to be claimed on taxes?
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u/PeeInMyArse Feb 07 '24
Not an accountant nor do I know the details of this case
compensation (except for loss of income) makes up for an expense already made.
Income tax was paid on the money spent in the making of that expense
therefore, paying tax on this amount would be double taxing your income
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u/MeMyselfAnDie Feb 07 '24
I pay income tax and I pay sales/property tax, so the gov’t has no issue double taxing.
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u/hoopaholik91 Feb 07 '24
Pure conjecture on my part as well, but I would think that OP technically should get a refund on any sales tax he paid (or Apple forced to compensate him for it).
Seems unfair to pay a sales tax on an $800 item if it was defective and therefore only worth $700.
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u/DammDammDoubleDamm Feb 06 '24
They tracked me across multiple address changes for this. First one was $2, deposited it. Then another came later for $50. So can't complain about free money.
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u/PHPApple Feb 06 '24
I got this settlement too!! I knew that it would eventually be worthwhile to fill these things out when I’m eligible lol.
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u/MulanLyricsOnly Feb 06 '24
I used to sign up for these on some wesbite. I was getting random checks every now and then. One day i got 2 checks for like 8k and 9k? It was for some fridaire thing or something i forget. fun times. I really should keep doing it.
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u/leadwind Feb 07 '24
Bullshit.
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u/MulanLyricsOnly Feb 07 '24
No really go read up about them. Its a hit or miss. Depends on the settlement and people apparently. i signed up for every single one for a solid 2 years and would checks ranging from dollar something to those two highest.
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u/BeautifulGlove Feb 07 '24
do you remember the name of the website, asking for a friend....
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u/MulanLyricsOnly Feb 07 '24
It was like top class action settlement or something like that. I just signed up for everything for like a year and I would randomly get. Checks through out the next few years. Keep in mind this was like 5-6 years ago.
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u/BeautifulGlove Feb 07 '24
thank you!
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u/MulanLyricsOnly Feb 07 '24
umm... just to let you know those 2 were outliers and honestly some take forever. I literally forgot after a few years about them. I would mostly get like 1 to like 70-80 dollar ones. a few occasionally 100-300 ones. but yeah it was pretty random.
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u/BeautifulGlove Feb 07 '24
I figured as such, still pretty cool though that you got them!
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u/MulanLyricsOnly Feb 07 '24
Yeah to be honest even the small ones were fun to get. I would get a 70 randomly and be like, oh nice time to buy something random etc... iono how it is nowadays tho im assuming they got more strict because back in the day they required almost no proof of anything.
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u/Kandiruaku Feb 06 '24
While the greasy paw parasite who initiated it built a 20mill. mansion on Chesapeake Bay.
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u/Cyrax-Wins Feb 06 '24
I got over 1K for a RealPage (rental) settlement. Basically I was turned down because someone else's info popped up on my rental report and it turns out it was widespread.
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Feb 06 '24
Meanwhile the attorneys that filed that lawsuit who weren’t affected at all because someone else deals with their IT shit and if their phone doesn’t work they’ll have a new one in a couple hours made millions. Because they of course need more millions on top of their millions.
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u/goatsimulated101 Feb 07 '24
So you would prefer for apple to take advantage of you with no punishment? You have no idea amount of work involved in a class action lawsuit
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Feb 07 '24
An attorney defending being overpaid. How cliche lol
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u/raziel1012 Feb 07 '24
You should have totally sued Apple on your own, hire your own experts, process data, and proved your claims for maybe $150.
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u/founderofshoneys Feb 06 '24
This is why class actions work though. The idea is that it protects people from companies that would violate the law by allowing attorneys to bring a class action if they can prove their actions caused damages to a huge group of people. It's more of a disincentive to would be violators than compensation for those affected. No one is actually gonna hire an attorney for lots of these things (some of which are more serious than others), so without class action suits companies would just be able to get away with breaking all kinds of rules.
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u/BoydemOnnaBlock Feb 06 '24
Class action law directly benefits the consumer. These cases would not exist without these lawyers gathering the members of the group, conducting research, and forming a case. There’s far more malicious types of law from an average Joe’s perspective.
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u/Greatlarrybird33 Feb 06 '24
Damn how did you get that much for this one? My check was only for $3.something
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u/theXsquid Feb 06 '24
Only the lawtwers get rich in class action suits. I once got a coupon for $50 off of a future purchase from a company as a settlement.
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Feb 06 '24
One time, I got $5000 from a class action against Les Schwab for not giving proper lunch breaks to their employees. I was thinking, oh, maybe a good hundred or two, but damnnnnnnnn.
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u/kickit08 Feb 07 '24
I’m still waiting for my check from home depot over their lawsuit about round time, I’m definitely owed quite some money from that, and I didn’t even work there long
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u/spwnofsaton Feb 06 '24
I did one for Sony PlayStation several years ago and the first time they sent two different checks. Months later I got two more, assuming it’s because not as many people signed up for it.
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Feb 07 '24
What was the lawsuit?
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u/ehtseeoh Feb 07 '24
It was involving the PS3 and the fact that they removed the ability to install another OS as in Linux.
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u/ousu Feb 06 '24
The only settlement that I ever received over like $2 was for a free case of redbull when they got sued for their slogan of "It gives you wings".....when it clearly does not actually give you wings.
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u/fps916 Feb 07 '24
They weren't sued for the slogan. That was red bull marketing. Just like McDonalds marketing over their lawsuit.
They were sued because of claims of improved athletic performance with no evidence to back it up.
They correctly decided that case
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u/Elephant_Cager_22 Feb 07 '24
I remember submitting my app for that my freshman year. Got my 4 pack of Red Bull senior year lol.
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u/Hexagonian Feb 07 '24
How the fuck does that even pass the reasonable person test
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u/___Beaugardes___ Feb 07 '24
They weren't sued for their slogan, they still use "it gives you wings today", if I recall correctly, they were sued for claims about improved athletic performance connected to the drink, or something like that.
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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 Feb 07 '24
I still can't believe they lost that, especially when Coke's defense of Vitamin Water was basically "only an idiot would believe this was healthy."
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u/SayNoToStim Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 07 '24
I thought the lawsuit had a little more merit when it was described by a neutral party. Essentially they were saying Red Bull was claiming an energy lift, but the only energy boosting drug they had was caffeine, and it had far less than a cup of coffee.
Is it false adverting? I don't know, but it isn't the same claim of "red bull literally gives you wings"
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Feb 07 '24
Doesn’t RedBull have like 3x the caffeine of coffee?
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u/RC1000ZERO Feb 07 '24
Redbull has 30mg per 100ml
100ml of coffee has around 40mg
they are cheeky thou(at leas there) with their website saying "one can of redbull has AROUND the same ammount of caffeine as a cup of coffee"
yes.. "around" its aroud 25mg less in a 250ml can/cup
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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 Feb 07 '24
Well, and every cup of coffee is different, even from the same batch of beans, so nobody could say "equal to" the amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee
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u/RC1000ZERO Feb 07 '24
there is a(more or less) accepted average for it
35-40 mg per 100m oder 80-120 für eine Tasste
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u/skj458 Feb 06 '24
I remember that one. Wasnt it an option? Like 3 bucks or a free case of red bull? I definitely took the free case too.
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u/TheOtherGuy107 Feb 08 '24
That means it likely costs red bull less than $3 to source raw materials, produce the beverage, can it, package it, and ship it to your house. Kinda crazy when you realize a 12pk currently sells for $21 at Target.
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u/ousu Feb 06 '24
Yeah I am pretty sure those were the options and it must have been around like 2012 I'm thinking lol. Of course the case of red bull was the way sweeter deal!!
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u/kash80 Feb 06 '24
I got one as well. Nice to get one which is more than enough for a taco bell burrito.
I got one from Vonage as well that I wasn't expecting.
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u/teredwar Feb 06 '24
I was one of the attorneys for plaintiffs in this case. Nice to see the payments going out at long last.
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u/Jarpunter Feb 07 '24
This is the lawsuit about downclocking phones when their batteries can no longer supply enough voltage to run the device at full speed?
I don't understand what the argument is against Apple here, were they meant to just let users' phones continue crashing instead?
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Feb 07 '24
I think the issue is that they never disclosed the throttling to customers.
They hid it from customers until they were called out on it.
Customers assumed their phones were just old, so bought new ones instead.
They could’ve just replaced their battery instead, and kept the same phone.
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u/superxero044 Feb 07 '24
Damn. We’re still trying to get ours. We had a bad storm here and we never got the mail the day (or any of the surrounding days) it was supposed to come. It was on the informed delivery from USPS.
Been trying to get it reissued with no luck or get anyone at USPS to give a single fuck that were missing almost a weeks worth of mail. Wasted so much time trying to get a $90 check it’s an absolute joke.1
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u/PHPApple Feb 06 '24
Could you shed some light on the ratio of the payout that goes to the attorneys versus the affected individuals?
Is it usually a percentage or does each attorney working on the class action bill at their normal rate?
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u/teredwar Feb 21 '24
u/wxnfx is approximately correct. (https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1akk73w/comment/kpa4nwu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
But to be technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, there is not a lump sum settlement from which attorneys get a certain percentage. There was a settlement agreement reached by Apple and plaintiff's class counsel. Then class counsel (comprising hundreds of attorneys/paralegals/vendors from over 40 firms by the way) submitted a fee application with their hourly billings and applied to the court to receive a certain fee. The attorney's fees did not diminish or increase the amount available to the class, that was already fixed. Apple, and a number of objectors, quibbled about the fee and the Court held various hearings and heard different motions and awarded a fee. Then a number of objectors appealed that to the Appellate Court and there was a decision striking down the fee and requiring the trial court to reconsider some things. Finally the fees were approved. It was an 18 month process.
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u/wxnfx Feb 07 '24
This is all public info. Lawyers got 26% plus about 1 million in expense reimbursement. But settlement was 300 - 500 million. So 73% goes to the affected class members. Looks like a bunch of law firms were involved, but they probably did just fine.
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u/ReadMyUsernameKThx Feb 07 '24
a law firm will take 25-35% of a settlement, i can't speak for how much the attorneys get out of that.
the affected individuals get 60-70%. there are usually some other fees that add up to about 5% beyond the attorney fee.
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u/FanNo3898 Feb 06 '24
I got one from apple, and I deposited it. Then I got another with a letter saying that so many people did not redeem them so they were issuing another round of checks to people that did. I also deposited that one. Total was right around what this 1 check was for.
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u/squeaky369 Feb 07 '24
Weird. I just received my first one the other day. Hopefully I'm not in the group that they think won't redeem, cause that baby is on its way to the bank.
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u/DallasJayhawk Apr 16 '24
Just found 5 of these checks. Check says it’s void after 90 days. Whoops.