The Buckeye Institute Files Amicus Brief Urging U.S. Supreme Court to End Unfair Practice of Cy Pres Awards
The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in St. John v. Jones, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept the case and end the unfair practice of awarding third parties, or cy pres recipients—who are wholly unrelated to a lawsuit—a portion of the monetary award that results from a class action lawsuit. “When class action lawsuits were embedded in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 23, there was no thought of the possibility that there might be left-over monies that could not be distributed to class members.”