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1 year agoMembers of the class will receive as much as 75 percent of the fees returned to them, though the payout may be lower depending on how many people claim refunds from the suit.
A fine that allows a company to profit off shitty business practices is not a deterrent, it’s just the cost of doing business. If people were receiving twice what they were charged in fees, then there might be actual change.
It’s worth giving the judge’s letter a read. He had this distributed to all the people that wrote in on the defendant’s behalf, since many people thought he was a good person and did nothing wrong. The judge set the record straight: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227212/gov.uscourts.dcd.227212.272.0.pdf