Pamela Samuelson, of UC Berkeley, one of the most influential and knowledgeable voices in this debate, has another informative column today at Huffington Post.
Professor Samuelson hopes Judge Chin urges the litigants to “pay attention to all of the objections, not just to those raised by the DOJ” while walking through some of the reforms suggested by the Justice Dept. From the piece,
“The GBS deal can’t be fixed by tweaking a few details. Reading through even a sampling of the hundreds of objections to the proposed settlement, one sees an amazingly diverse configuration of opponents and a vast array of problems that cannot be remedied by minor fixes.”
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