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The lawyers however get the jackpot: `Class Counsel will ask the Court for an award of attorneys’ fees not to exceed 25% of the Settlement Fund, as well as reasonable expenses`

180M USD to represent the rights of people who didn't ask for your help.

Oh yeah, might as well do it anyways just to see what you get from it. The amount of time is pretty crazy though, at least in my experience.

Totally agree on the time. The contact settlement collected info in early 2020, I got the surprisingly large check 3 weeks ago. Now the pandemic messed with the times a bit but it’s normally years you have to wait in my experience. One day a check for $2.46 comes in the mail and you remember “oh yeah, this is for that XYZ settlement”.

I got over $2000 from the class action against banks for sneaky foreign transaction fees. It did, however, require a lot of documentation.

It makes some sense that the more effort it takes to submit a claim, the more money you’re likely to receive.