No. 24-96

Xanadu Corp., et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-07-30
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: attorney-fees claims-administration class-action due-process judicial-review settlement-distribution unclaimed-property
Key Terms:
DueProcess ClassAction JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2024-09-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Class Counsel and the claims administrator must turn over undelivered or uncashed checks payable to approved claimants in federal class action cases to state unclaimed property agencies or if Class Counsel can instead convert the money to additional attorney fees with the remaining amounts redistributed to other class members?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether Class Counsel and the claims administrator must turn over undelivered or uncashed checks payable to approved claimants in federal class action cases to state unclaimed property agencies or if Class Counsel can instead convert the money to additional attorney fees with the remaining amounts redistributed to other class members? 2. Whether due process allows Class Counsel, who were concurrently seeking to convert undelivered checks into attorney fees, to cause a class action claimant’s approved claim to be reopened and audited over a year after its approval, subjected to a heightened and different standard of review than other claimants, but not provide any meaningful judicial review mechanism for the new decision?

Docket Entries

2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-09-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-07-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 29, 2024)
2024-05-14
Application (23A1010) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 26, 2024.
2024-05-10
Application (23A1010) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 27, 2024 to July 26, 2024, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

Xanadu Corporation, et al.
John Allen Roth — Petitioner