Opinion ID: 175982
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Reducing the Damages Award

Text: CDN challenges the district court's failure to reduce the damages award to account for a smaller actual class size than the size presented to the jury as a basis for awarding damages. This challenge is premature. CDN may eventually be entitled to a return of excess or unclaimed funds. See Six Mex. Workers v. Ariz. Citrus Growers, 904 F.2d 1301, 1308 (9th Cir.1990) ([R]eversion to the defendant may be appropriate when deterrence is not a goal of the statute or is not required by the circumstances.); cf. Williams v. MGM-Pathe Commc'ns Co., 129 F.3d 1026, 1027 (9th Cir. 1997) (per curiam) (assuming that when absent class members do not have a calculable interest in unclaimed money, the balance of a fund is returned to defendants). The district court, however, has entered an order providing that it will await the running of the statute of limitations on the filing of individual suits against CDN before calculating any distribution of excess and unclaimed funds.