BERRY v. SCHULMAN

Nos. 14-2006, 14-2050, 14-2101.

807 F.3d 600 (2015)

Gregory Thomas BERRY; Summer Darbonne, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated; Rickey Millen, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Shamoon Saeed, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Arthur B. Hernandez, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Erika A. Godfrey, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated; Timothy Otten, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and LexisNexis Risk and Information Analytics Group, Inc.; Seisint, Inc.; Reed Elsevier, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, v. Adam E. Schulman, Party-in-Interest-Appellant. James Taylor Lewis Grimmelmann, Amicus Supporting Appellants. Gregory Thomas Berry; Summer Darbonne, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated; Rickey Millen, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Shamoon Saeed, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Arthur B. Hernandez, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Erika A. Godfrey, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated; Timothy Otten, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and LexisNexis Risk and Information Analytics Group, Incorporated; Seisint, Incorporated; Reed Elsevier, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees, v. Megan Christina Aaron and the Aaron Objectors, Party-in-Interest-Appellant. James Taylor Lewis Grimmelmann, Amicus Supporting Appellants. Gregory Thomas Berry; Summer Darbonne, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated; Rickey Millen, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Shamoon Saeed, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Arthur B. Hernandez, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated; Erika A. Godfrey, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated; Timothy Otten, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and LexisNexis Risk and Information Analytics Group, Incorporated; Seisint, Incorporated; Reed Elsevier, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees, v. Scott Hardway and the Hardway Objectors, Party-in-Interest-Appellant. James Taylor Lewis Grimmelmann, Amicus Supporting Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 4, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Richard Monroe Paul, III , Paul McInnes LLP, Kansas City, Missouri, for Appellants. William Walter Wilkins , Nexsen Pruet, Greenville, South Carolina; Joseph R. Palmore , Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Ashlea G. Schwarz , Paul McInnes LLP, Kansas City, Missouri; Samuel Issacharoff , New York, New York; Thomas W. Bevan , Patrick M. Walsh , Bevan & Associates LPA, Inc., Boston Heights, Ohio; Edwin F. Brooks , Edwin F. Brooks, LLC, Richmond, Virginia; Adam E. Schulman , Center for Class Action Fairness, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Michael A. Caddell , Cynthia B. Chapman , Caddell & Chapman, Houston, Texas; Kirsten E. Small , Andrew A. Mathias , Nexsen Pruet, Greenville, South Carolina; Leonard A. Bennett , Matthew J. Erausquin , Consumer Litigation Associates, P.C., Newport News, Virginia; James A. Francis , David Searles , John Soumilas , Francis & Mailman P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Dale W. Pittman , the Law Office of Dale W. Pittman, P.C., Petersburg, Virginia; Ronald I. Raether, Jr. , Faruki, Ireland & Cox, PLL, Dayton, Ohio; David Neal Anthony , Troutman Sanders, LLP, Richmond, Virginia; Marc A. Hearron , Washington, D.C., James F. McCabe , San Francisco, California, Michael B. Miller , Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, New York, for Appellees. Daniel F. Goldstein , Matthias L. Niska , Brown Goldstein & Levy, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; James Grimmelmann , Professor of Law, Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Amicus Curiae.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge HARRIS wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge HAZEL joined.


The class action settlement at issue in this appeal is "the culmination of years of litigation and negotiations" between class counsel and the defendants, LexisNexis Risk and Information Analytics Group, Inc.; Seisint, Inc.; and Reed Elsevier Inc. (together, "Lexis"). Berry v. LexisNexis Risk & Info. Analytics Grp....

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