The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in a Thursday opinion, remanded the sunscreen settlement back to U.S. District Judge Anuraag ‘Raag’ Singh of the Southern District of Florida, who had criticized objector Ted Frank for holding up his approval of the class action agreement.
An appeals court unraveled Johnson & Johnson’s agreement over recalled sunscreen, citing its own ruling last month that defined a “coupon” settlement.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in a Thursday opinion, remanded the sunscreen settlement back to U.S. District Judge Anuraag “Raag” Singhal of the Southern District of Florida. Singhal, a 2019 appointee of former President Donald Trump, who had criticized objector Ted Frank for holding up his approval of the settlement, must now revaluate whether the deal is a “coupon” settlement as defined under the Eleventh Circuit’s May 13 decision in Drazen v. Pinto.
