Sunday, June 29, 2025

You're Going To Give Me Money? Sure!

Yesterday I received a post card in the mail that indicated that I might be entitled to a payment from a class action lawsuit. Usually things like this go straight into the recycling bin, but when I turned it over and started reading I learned that in this case the "entitle to a payment" information was correct.

In this case, the defendant was Lee Enterprises (the owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper). Allegedly, they disclosed subscriber's personally identifiable information to Facebook without consent.

The records indicated I was a class member, and the postcard encouraged me to fill out a claim form with a provided login and password. This morning I went to the website, logged in, filled out the form, and chose my settlement delivery method. Before I signed off on the application I had to agree that:

"I am a person in the United States who, from December 1, 2020, until March 4, 2025, have or had a Facebook account, and was a subscriber of a Lee publication during that time."

A hearing on the proposed settlement is scheduled for early August. If the Court approves the settlement I will receive a payment 90 days later. The payment is anticipated to be approximately $41.01. Definitely not a huge amount, but enough to have made it worth my while. 

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13 comments:

  1. Glad it sounds legitimate -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com

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  2. In a world with so much injustice, this sounds unique.

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  3. 41.04 is larger than some that I’ve received. I’d certainly sign up for that.

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    1. I've only received a few payments. None of them was huge.

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  4. How interesting. It's not a huge compensation, but better than nothing!

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    1. I agree, especially since I will consider it found money.

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  5. It is hard to tell if those things are for real or a scam. And there is so much information to read to find out! I completed one the other day and got a whopping $11!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! I'm off to check out your place.

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  6. Hey, 40 bucks is 40 bucks! I once got $25 in a class action settlement of a bread-price-fixing scheme here in Canada, LOL!

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