Thank you
Passive Action is small and new. Almost everything useful on it exists because someone else did the hard part first. These are the people and projects we lean on, and we are grateful to every one of them.
The public record, and the people who keep it
- The Federal Judicial Center: Its Integrated Database is the backbone of our 38-year count of federal class actions and the case index.
- Free Law Project: CourtListener and the RECAP Archive make federal dockets free to read. We link dockets there, and our research leans on their bulk data.
- The federal courts: Every docket, order and settlement notice starts with the clerks and judges who keep the record.
- Settlement administrators: The court-approved settlement websites are the only place we send you to file. They do the real work of paying people.
- The FTC, SEC, CFPB and Department of Justice: Their refund and distribution pages tell people about money that is already on its way.
News and places
- The GDELT Project: An open index of online news; it is where our In the news page finds coverage of the companies behind each settlement.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: Place names on the map come from OpenStreetMap data (ODbL), looked up through Nominatim.
- Esri: The map tiles.
Thanking someone is not the same as speaking for them. We are not affiliated with, and not endorsed by, any of the projects, agencies, courts or companies on this page. Any mistakes on our site are ours, not theirs.
If we helped you
The kindest thing you can do is tell one person who might be owed money. Settlements only work when they reach the people they were meant for, and most never hear about them.
If you write a blog, keep a library or legal aid resource list, or run a community page about consumer rights, a link to us helps the next person find their claim. No need to ask; here is a plain one you can copy:
<a href="https://www.passiveaction.org/">Passive Action: free help finding open class action settlements</a>Spotted something wrong, or a source we should thank and didn't? Tell us. We would rather be corrected than be wrong.