7th Circuit Panel Tosses ‘Worthless’ $525,000 Subway Footlong Sandwich Settlement

Mealey's (August 28, 2017, 12:12 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 25 threw out a $525,000 settlement in a multidistrict litigation against the franchisor of Subway restaurants over the actual length of the chain’s “Footlong” submarine sandwiches, saying it yields “zero benefits for the class” (In Re:  Subway Footlong Sandwich Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, Appeal of:  Theodore Frank, No. 16-1652, 7th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 16260)....