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Supremes asked to mull legality of Silicon Valley privacy 'slush funds'

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Re: Eh?

Because in a class action you normally can't identify all of A, so the court lets a law firm represent all of A and choose how to distribute the payout to them. In this case they claim that giving the payout to C is just as good.

Say birdwatchers sue a pesticide maker because its product kills birds. You can't prove which individual birdwatchers were harmed so everyone agree to give the money to the RSPB = a good result.

Only in this case you give the money back to the pesticide maker if it claims it will do some bird watching one day.

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