Mealey's (August 19, 2021, 9:14 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 17 reversed a trial court’s 2019 approval of a class settlement valued at approximately $25 million in a lawsuit accusing a smartphone-based dating application of discriminatory age-based pricing in violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act and California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and remanded for a “more probing inquiry” that’s required in a pre-certification settlement, finding the value of the settlement “substantially overstated” and the strength and value of the claims “discounted.”...