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Class lawyers defend Facebook's $650 million biometric privacy settlement before US appeals court

By Amy Miller ( February 17, 2022, 23:42 GMT | Insight) -- Class-action lawyers who negotiated Facebook’s landmark $650 million settlement resolving biometric privacy allegations defended getting nearly $100 million in attorneys’ fees before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Objectors argued the fees were so large, the lower court abused its discretion and duty to class members. But two judges on the three-judge panel seemed skeptical.Class-action lawyers who negotiated Facebook’s landmark $650 million settlement resolving biometric privacy allegations defended being awarded nearly $100 million in attorneys’ fees before a federal appeals court today....

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