Making Cents of Class-Action Lawsuits

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Andy Vasoyan, freelance technology and culture reporter and former Weekend Edition host at KCLU, talks about joining as many class-action lawsuits as possible and how you can too.

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0:00.0	Brian Larry on WNYC, we're going to wrap up our show for today by talking about class action
0:16.5	lawsuits, but in a different way than you might expect. One, you may be entitled to some money
0:23.5	from some class action lawsuit that's going on right now that you may not even know about. You
0:28.2	may not come away with a huge payout, but who doesn't want an extra $20 here and there if you
0:33.6	can get it, right? And getting it might actually be easier than you think. My guest is Andy
0:39.5	Vassoyan, a freelance journalist covering technology and culture and former weekend edition host for
0:44.9	KCLU out in California. His latest piece for Wired is titled, I joined every class action lawsuit I
0:52.7	can find, and so can you.
0:55.3	Andy, thank you for joining us today.
0:56.8	Welcome to WNYC.
0:58.9	Thanks, Brian.
0:59.5	Happy to be here.
1:00.6	And listeners, we can take your stories along these lines, too, if you have any.
1:05.5	Sorry, have any.
1:06.4	Have you gotten money from a class action settlement?
1:09.4	How much did you get?
1:10.7	What was the process like?
1:12.5	Did you get one of those emails or letters in the mail saying, your name has been mentioned,
1:18.2	you may be eligible, blah, blah, blah, blah. 212-433, WNYC, if anyone has a story or a question.
1:25.9	212-433--92, call or text.
1:31.3	Andy, what let you down this road?
1:34.2	So I was actually party to a class action litigation in 2016 related to the Eliso Canyon
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