Legal Opinion
All v. All
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 27, 2011No. 10-40119PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns the disposition of unclaimed funds from a class action settlement. The plaintiffs and defendants settled the underlying antitrust claims, and funds from the settlement were allocated to various identified members of the plaintiff class. The settlement administrator sent checks to the last known addresses of plaintiffs, but many were returned as undeliverable or were never cashed. The district court invoked the doctrine of cy pres and ordered that all unclaimed funds be distributed to the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources at the…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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