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Judge Alsup finds major flaws with Bartz Class Website, “steered away from opting out” with no button to opt out. Court orders class website IMMEDIATELY disabled until fixes made.
Read more: Judge Alsup finds major flaws with Bartz Class Website, “steered away from opting out” with no button to opt out. Court orders class website IMMEDIATELY disabled until fixes made.Late Thursday night, Judge Alsup issued his third order on the Bartz class notice. The order is the most scathing critique of the Bartz class’s process for class members. Judge Alsup found that (1) the class website lacks a button for class members to opt out while presenting a button to file a claim for…
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Judge Alsup raises new concerns about class members filing claims for 60,000 works before (i) direct notice and (ii) claims form lacking info on right to opt out. Asks Bartz Class Counsel if they informed court many class claims would occur before direct notice sent.
Read more: Judge Alsup raises new concerns about class members filing claims for 60,000 works before (i) direct notice and (ii) claims form lacking info on right to opt out. Asks Bartz Class Counsel if they informed court many class claims would occur before direct notice sent.Judge Alsup issued an order Sunday afternoon expressing more concerns with how Bartz Class Counsel has implemented the claims process for people within the class. Today’s concern is with how already 60,000 works in the class, or over 12%, have been subject to claims. Usually that decent percentage of class participation would be a positive…
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Judge Alsup blasts ClaimsHero attempt to “trick” class authors to opt out in “a fraud of immense proportions.” Warns of case referral to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Read more: Judge Alsup blasts ClaimsHero attempt to “trick” class authors to opt out in “a fraud of immense proportions.” Warns of case referral to the U.S. Attorney’s office.Things went horribly for Devin “Velvel” Freedman, counsel for ClaimsHero at today’s hearing. As we predicted before the hearing, things woulldn’t–and didn’t–end well for ClaimsHero. From the start of ClaimsHero’s argument, Judge Alsup excoriated Freedman, a lawyer from Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, for ClaimsHero’s “misleading” interference with the claims and opt out process approved by…
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Bartz Class Counsel asks for leave to file reply to ClaimsHero. Proposed reply blasts ClaimsHero’s brief.
Read more: Bartz Class Counsel asks for leave to file reply to ClaimsHero. Proposed reply blasts ClaimsHero’s brief.Things are getting heated in the Bartz v. Anthropic case. Less than 24 hours after third-party law firm ClaimsHero filed a full-throated First Amendment defense of its marketing, social media, and website overtures to Bartz class members to opt out, the Bartz Class Counsel filed motion for leave to file a reply. Bartz Class Counsel…
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ClaimsHero offers vigorous defense of its overtures to Bartz class members. Disputes Bartz Class Counsel’s allegations.
Read more: ClaimsHero offers vigorous defense of its overtures to Bartz class members. Disputes Bartz Class Counsel’s allegations.ClaimsHero, an Arizona law firm that specializes in aggregating claims for class actions, gave a full-throated defense of its overtures to Bartz class members who potentially choose to opt out of the class recovery and pursue their own claims against Anthropic separately. When the Bartz Class Counsel had contacted ClaimsHero about Class Counsel’s concerns with…