U.S. District Judge William Alsup rejected a class-action lawsuit sought against My Pillow because the lead plaintiff, Richard Wuest, could not represent the suit, Reuters reports. The judge denied the motion citing "lead plaintiffs [with] a history of filing class actions — and then settling cases individually" can not lead a class-action suit. The decision was handed down after it was revealed that in each of the 10 class actions "alleging violations of the [California Invasion of Privacy Act]" Wuest and his attorneys have filed, all resulted in payouts only to Wuest and his attorneys. “The pattern is quite clear. The premium was something rightfully due to the ‘class’ but no absent putative class member ever got anything. Wuest and his counsel got it all,” the judge wrote.
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