Class action settlement payouts
Jack Rabbit v. Visa
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Jack Rabbit asks the Supreme Court to review a Second Circuit decision allowing millions of payment-facilitator customers to share in a $5.6 billion Visa–Mastercard antitrust settlement fund, even though the appeals court did not decide whether they can recover under federal antitrust law.
- What's at stake
- Those customers’ right to share in the fund remains unresolved because the Second Circuit did not decide whether federal antitrust law lets them recover.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The petition is set for a conference; that step does not mean the Supreme Court has agreed to hear it.
The dispute arose from a class-action settlement in a multidistrict antitrust case involving Visa and Mastercard.
Question presented
1. Whether a federal court may direct that a fixed common fund created to satisfy the claims of a certified Rule 23(b)(3) damages class be distributed to persons whom no court has found entitled to recover under the statute upon which the class’s claims rest, on the basis that the settling parties intended to include them. 2. Whether a court of appeals may affirm such an order while expressly declining to decide whether the persons admitted to the class have any claim under the statute upon which the class’s claims rest.
What happens next
The petition was distributed for the Court’s Nov. 13, 2026 conference. The Court must decide whether to hear it; the conference does not guarantee an order date, and argument is not scheduled.
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- What does Jack Rabbit want the Supreme Court to decide?
- Jack Rabbit asks whether courts may distribute settlement money to class members without finding they can recover under federal antitrust law, and whether an appeals court may uphold that distribution without deciding their eligibility.
Sources
Primary materials from the Court and the parties. Grounded in docket records and cited sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.