{"id":7211,"date":"2025-07-17T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:44:44","slug":"legal-intelligencer-justice-at-scale-class-action-settlements-must-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-justice-at-scale-class-action-settlements-must-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Justice at Scale: Class Action Settlements Must Deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mb-4\">\n<div class=\"text-lg\">\n<p>In the July 17, 2025 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a>, Edward Kang writes, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2025\/07\/17\/justice-at-scale-class-action-settlements-must-deliver\/\">Justice at Scale: Class Action Settlements Must Deliver<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie in the Eastern District of New York denied preliminary approval of a proposed $30 billion swipe-fee settlement between merchants and credit card giants Visa and Mastercard. At the last moment, despite nearly two decades of litigation and what appeared to be a monumental compromise, the deal fell through. The court criticized the sufficiency of relief compared to trial-level damages and noted that the proposed settlement inequitably benefited smaller merchants at the expense of larger ones. The court\u2019s decision exemplifies heightened judicial scrutiny over class action settlements in recent years. It underscores the central tension in such cases: while such settlements can deliver mass redress, they must offer the class real, equitable benefits, not just symbolic fixes or compensation for counsel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-justice-at-scale-class-action-settlements-must-deliver\/#more-7211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the July 17, 2025 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang writes, &#8220;Justice at Scale: Class Action Settlements Must Deliver.&#8221; In June 2024, U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie in the Eastern District of New York denied preliminary approval of a proposed $30 billion swipe-fee settlement between merchants and credit card giants Visa and Mastercard. 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