Cert Sought Over Cy Pres Provision In Deal Settling Indian Farmers’ Bias Claims

(January 3, 2018, 12:35 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alleging “self-dealing and collusion” among class counsel and class representatives in the distribution of money from a settlement of discrimination claims by Native American farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one class member took his battle against the allotment of surplus funds to cy pres nonprofits to the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 1 (Marilyn Keepseagle, et al. v. Sonny Perdue, et al., No. 17-807, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 4776)....