Plaintiffs Refuse Facebook's Proposed Settlement

When have class action suits ever been good for anyone except the lawyers? Seriously, they make millions, plaintiffs usually get a $5 coupon.

Facebook, of course, believes otherwise and if users who are objecting to the settlement don't agree, they should just leave the class-action lawsuit, according to Michael Rhodes, the attorney hired by the social network to handle the case. "If it's such a terrible action, opt out," he said during a hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. If a plaintiff were to opt out of the class action, he or she could sue Facebook separately.

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It would be funny to see a law firm do this and sortof reverse copy the RIAA and file thousands of lawsuits at once all against Facebook.

If a plaintiff were to opt out of the class action, he or she could sue Facebook separately.

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The problem is that its likely not worth it for an individual to sue separately. They'd love people to drop out of the class action because it will be cheaper for them overall.

I always see poeple say "The lawyers make money, the plaintiffs make peanuts.

Do people not understand the reason people get so little is because it's divided by soooo many people?

Sure you might only get $5 bucks from it, but that $5 is multiplied by up to thousands and thousands of other people.

Whereas the lawyers get more because naturally, there's only one, maybe two of them or so. However in the end the lawyers actually get LESS in terms of a % of the total sum fromt he case, it's just divided over so many people each individual person gets a small chunk, but as a hole they get more then the lawyers get.

As well one of the main points of class action suits is so othat people can throw their money in together for lawyer/court fees as a group and it will cost them a lot less to take it to court then if just one person did it and had to cover all the legal fees.

Class action suits are a way for individuals to be able to fight corporations and bigger companies who can afford to waste millions of dollars in court costs and drag things out in the hopes that the other person can't afford to and will have to fold.

Stiler said:

I always see poeple say "The lawyers make money, the plaintiffs make peanuts.

Do people not understand the reason people get so little is because it's divided by soooo many people?

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I always see people say "The CEOs make money, the workers make peanuts.

Do workers not understand the reason they get paid so little is because they are soooo many expecting to get paid for their efforts."

Brilliant logic.

dgz said:

I always see people say "The CEOs make money, the workers make peanuts.

Do workers not understand the reason they get paid so little is because they are soooo many expecting to get paid for their efforts."

Brilliant logic.

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Brilliant reply, that makes complete sense (not). Do you not understand the difference?

A settlement is reached in a class action lawsuit, say 5.5 million dollars.

The lawyers get 33% so 1.8mil roughly.

Then the plaintiffs get around 3600'ish.

If they didn't divide the settlement up between each plaintiff you'd end up getting 5 BILLION 500 million.

It'd be absurd to do this as it'd bankrupt many companies if each plaintiff got a full settlement.