Yahoo, Data Breach Class Call Settlement Objectors’ 9th Circuit Appeals Meritless

Mealey's (July 22, 2021, 12:25 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a pair of answering briefs filed July 8, Yahoo! Inc. and the lead plaintiffs in a consolidated class action over a series of data breaches the tech firm experienced tell the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that the appeals filed by two objectors to a $117.5 million settlement of the underlying suit failed to raise any arguments of substance and are merely attempts to profit financially from the settlement by serial objectors....