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Will probably work out to ~$15k per person after fees.

"If approved without changes, each of the 358 plaintiffs in the California case stand to earn $50,279 in gross individual recovery. Net of attorney's fees, costs and expenses, however, that total shrinks to a "minimum of $15,000," court filings indicate."

Like usual lawyers walk away with Ferraris and the victims get a pittance. It's particular egregious in this case. $15k is almost surely less than even a year's wages. How pathetic. The very least they could do is calculate 7 years worth of interest on the 18M...but then the scumbag lawyers get more.

> $15k is almost surely less than even a year's wages. How pathetic.

That's not the worst of it.

It took seven years of effort to be awarded a $15k payout.

Cutting the lawyers out altogether, even the full $50k is still less than a single year's salary for the median household. It doesn't fix anything.

I know basically nothing about the law but isn't the most important thing here the groundwork they laid? Since this case can be used as precedence for others who feel they were discriminated against.

It seems like such a minor fine that it's likely doing the opposite: showing businesses that it's completely okay to do so, and the worst that can happen is a slight fine.

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