50 pages. It took 50 pages for the parties in Bartz v. Anthropic to answer the 34 highly detailed questions Judge Alsup instructed them to answer.
Judge Alsup had picked apart the proposed settlement process in those 34 questions.
Tomorrow is the hearing on the motion for preliminary approval of the class settlement. Let’s see if the parties addressed all of Judge Alsup’s many concerns.
Interestingly, the parties have proposed an alternative summary of the facts to be included in the Class Notice, somewhat different from Judge Alsup’s proposed language. The below shows the language Judge Alsup proposed. The parts indicated in Track Changes are different from what the parties now propose.
Judge Alsup’s suggested summary:
Here’s the parties’ version, which, among other changes, omits the word “pirate” and omits the central library-building part:
Parties’ proposed summary:
