Reed v. Light & Wonder, Inc.

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: July 8, 2022
• Docket: 2:18-cv-00565
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE

10 DONNA REED, individually and on behalf Case No. 18-cv-00565-RSL of all others similarly situated, STIPULATED MOTION FOR 11 LIMITED SUPPLEMENTAL Plaintiff, NOTICE PROGRAM AND 12 ORDER v. 13

14 SCIENTIFIC GAMES CORP., a Nevada 15 corporation,

Defendant. 17

18 Pursuant to Local Civil Rule 10(g) Plaintiff Donna Reed (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant 19 Scientific Games Corporation (“Scientific Games”) stipulate and respectfully request that the 20 Court grant this motion and enter the attached [Proposed] Order approving of a limited 21 supplemental notice program. In support of their Stipulated Motion, the Parties state as follow: 22 1. On July 6, 2022, the Settlement Administrator apprised Class Counsel that due to 23 an inadvertent administrative error, the Settlement Administrator did not send direct postcard 24 notice to a group—consisting of approximately 0.5% of the Class Members responsible for 25 approximately .08% of the Class’s Total Lifetime Spending—that is supposed to receive 26 27 1 postcard notice under the Settlement. See Supplemental Declaration of Jennifer Keough (“Supp. 2 Keough Decl.”) ¶ 4. 3 2. Because the direct notice campaign reached more than 90% of the Class 4 Members, and because the digital notice campaign buttressed the direct notice campaign, the 5 Parties do not believe that the Settlement Administrator’s inadvertent administrative error poses 6 any due process concerns to the entry of final approval here. See, e.g., Federal Judicial Center, 7 Judges’ Class Action Notice & Claims Process Checklist & Plain Language Guide, at 3 (2010), 8 available at https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/2012/NotCheck.pdf (notice campaign that 9 reaches 70% of a class is often reasonable); Askar v. Health Providers Choice, Inc., No. 19-CV- 10 06125-BLF, 2021 WL 4846955, at *3 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 18, 2021) (“[N]otice plans estimated to 11 reach a minimum of 70 percent are constitutional and comply with Rule 23”) (citation omitted). 12 3. Nevertheless, because the Settlement Agreement called for these Class Members 13 to receive postcard notice—and more broadly because they believe it is the fair and equitable 14 thing to do—the Parties respectfully request that the Court enter the attached [Proposed] Order 15 establishing a limited supplemental notice program for the Class Members impacted by the 16 Settlement Administrator’s inadvertent administrative error. 17 4. If the Court enters the attached [Proposed] Order, the Settlement Administrator 18 will—as soon as July 8, 2022—immediately disseminate the Limited Supplemental Notice 19 attached as Exhibit A to the Supplemental Keough Declaration, composed of a “buck slip” and 20 the original notice postcard. The buck slip advises impacted Class Members that due to the 21 inadvertent administrative error, those Class Members have until 5:00pm on August 10, 2022, to 22 file a claim, request to be excluded, or object to the Settlement. 23 5. If the Court enters the attached [Proposed] Order, Class Counsel will file a status 24 report on August 11, 2022. That status report will apprise the Court of any objections or 25 exclusion requests received by Class Members that received the limited supplemental notice, and 26 further apprise the Court of an updated Adjusted Claims Rate, taking into account any 27 supplemental claims that are made. 1 All parties respectfully request that this Court grant this stipulated motion and enter the 2 attached [Proposed] Order. 3 4 Dated: July 8, 2022

5 By: /s/ Adam L. Hoeflich By: /s/ Todd Logan 6 Adam L. Hoeflich* Rafey S. Balabanian* Bartlit Beck LLP Todd Logan* 7 Courthouse Place Brandt Silver-Korn* 54 West Hubbard Street Edelson PC 8 Chicago, IL 60654 150 California Street, 18th Floor Telephone: 312.494.4400 San Francisco, CA 94111 9 Facsimile: 312.494.4440 Tel: 415.212.9300 / Fax: 415.373.9435 10 Email: adam.hoeflich@bartlitbeck.com Email: rbalabanian@edelson.com tlogan@edelson.com 11 Daniel C. Taylor* bsilverkorn@edelson.com Alison G. Wheeler* 12 Bartlit Beck LLP By: /s/ Alexander G. Tievsky 1801 Wewatta Street, 12th Floor Jay Edelson* 13 Denver, CO 80202 Alexander G. Tievsky, WSBA #57125 14 Telephone: 303.592.3100 Amy B. Hausmann* Facsimile: 303.592.3140 Edelson PC 15 Email: sean.grimsley@bartlitbeck.com 350 North LaSalle Street, 14th Floor daniel.taylor@bartlitbeck.com Chicago, Illinois 60654 16 alison.wheeler@bartlitbeck.com Tel: 312.589.6370 / Fax: 312.589.6378 Email: jedelson@edelson.com 17 By: /s/ Kathleen M. O’Sullivan atievsky@edelson.com 18 Kathleen M. O’Sullivan, WSBA No. 27850 abhausmann@edelson.com Nicola C. Menaldo, WSBA No. 44459 19 Perkins Coie LLP By: /s/ Cecily C. Jordan 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900 Cecily C. Jordan, WSBA #50061 20 Seattle, WA 98101-3099 Tousley Brain Stephens PLLC Telephone: 206.359.8000 1700 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2200 21 Facsimile: 206.359.9000 Seattle, Washington 98101 22 Email: KOSullivan@perkinscoie.com Tel: 206.682.5600 NMenaldo@perkinscoie.com Email: cshiel@tousley.com 23 DMartin@perkinscoie.com Attorneys for Plaintiff and the Class 24 Attorneys for Defendant Scientific Games Corporation 25

26 *Admitted pro hac vice

27 1 ORDER 2 The Parties’ stipulated motion is GRANTED. The Settlement Administrator shall 3 immediately disseminate the limited supplemental notice attached as Exhibit A to the Keough 4 Declaration. Impacted Class Members shall have until August 10, 2022, at 5:00pm for any 5 claims, objections, or exclusion requests to be received by the Settlement Administrator. Class 6 Counsel shall file a status report on August 11, 2022. The Final Approval Hearing remains set 7 for August 12, 2022, at 11:00am. 8 9 IT IS SO ORDERED. 10 Dated this 8th day of July, 2022. 11

12 13 Robert S. Lasnik United States District Judge 14

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