9th Circuit Affirms Final Settlement Of $90 Million Facebook Tracking MDL

Mealey's (March 6, 2024, 9:19 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — More than a year after a trial court granted final approval to the $90 million settlement of a multidistrict litigation over the alleged tracking of Facebook users’ online activity by Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.), a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed the settlement, finding no abuse of discretion and rejecting three objectors’ suggested settlement fund of $1.24 trillion as “unreasonable.”...