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Reach of Notice
Judge Catherine C. Blake, In re Royal Ahold Securities and “ERISA” Litig., (January 6, 2006) MDL-1539 (D. Md.): The Notice Plan that has been proposed seems very well, very well suited, both in terms of its plain language and in terms of its international reach, to do what I hope will be a very thorough and broad-ranging job of reaching as many of the shareholders, whether individual or institutional, as possibly can be done to participate in what I also preliminarily believe to be a fair, adequate and reasonable settlement.
Judge Stuart R. Pollak, Microsoft I-V Cases, (April 1, 2001) J.C.C.P. No. CJC-00-004106 (Cal. Super. Ct. San Francisco Co.): [C]oncerning dissemination of class notice; and I have reviewed the materials that have been submitted on that subject and basically I’m satisfied. I think it’s amazing if you’re really getting 80 percent coverage. That’s very reassuring. And the papers that you submitted responded to a couple things that had been mentioned before and I am satisfied with all that.
Judge Robert E. Payne, Fisher v. Virginia Electric & Power Co., (July 1, 2004) No. 3:02CV431 (E.D. Va.): The success rate in notifying the class is, I believe, at least in my experience, I share Ms. Kauffman’s experience, it is as great as I have ever seen in practicing or serving in this job . . . So I don’t believe we could have had any more effective notice.
Judge Douglas L. Combs, Morris v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., (February 22, 2005) No. CJ-03-714 (D. Okla.): I am very impressed that the notice was able to reach – be delivered to 97 ½ percent members of the class. That, to me, is admirable. And I’m also – at the time that this was initially entered, I was concerned about the ability of notice to be understood by a common, non lawyer person, when we talk about legalese in a court setting. In this particular notice, not only the summary notice but even the long form of the notice were easily understandable, for somebody who could read the English language, to tell them whether or not they had the opportunity to file a claim.
