{"id":47271,"date":"2026-03-12T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/batton-plaintiffs-lose-bid-to-intervene-in-anywhere-settlement\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:22:00","slug":"batton-plaintiffs-lose-bid-to-intervene-in-anywhere-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/batton-plaintiffs-lose-bid-to-intervene-in-anywhere-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Batton plaintiffs lose bid to intervene in Anywhere settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite pushback from the Batton homebuyer commission lawsuit plaintiffs, Anywhere Real Estate<\/strong>\u2019<\/a>s settlement in the Tuccori homebuyer commission suit<\/a> obtained preliminary approval last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anywhere was initially not a defendant in the combined Tuccori and Cwynar homebuyer suits, but in February, Anywhere asked the Tuccori plaintiffs if it could opt-in to their pre-established homebuyer settlement. In a motion to intervene<\/a>, the Batton plaintiffs claimed that Anywhere conducted a \u201creverse auction<\/a>\u201d and sought out \u201cthe most ineffectual class lawyers to negotiate a settlement with the hope that the district court will approve a weak settlement that will preclude other claims against the defendant.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to approving Anywhere\u2019s settlement, Judge Jenkins also denied the Batton plaintiffs\u2019 motion to intervene in the Tuccori lawsuit. In her ruling, Judge Jenkin wrote that the Batton\u2019s plaintiffs interests would not be impaired if their motion to intervene was denied, as they would have the opportunity to object to the settlement at the agreement\u2019s final approval fairness hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aaron Bolton, one of the Batton plaintiffs, has appealed Judge Jenkin\u2019s ruling on the motion to intervene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to Judge Jenkins\u2019 rulings, Judge LaShonda Hunt, who is overseeing the Batton lawsuit, denied two motions the Batton plaintiffs filed regarding the Tuccori suit. Last week, Judge Hunt denied the Batton plaintiffs\u2019 motions to reassign the Tuccori suit to her, as well as their motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to prevent the Tuccori plaintiffs and Anywhere from proceeding with their motion for preliminary approval of Anywhere\u2019s settlement. Judge Hunt echoed Judge Jenkins, telling the Batton plaintiffs that they could object to Anywhere\u2019s settlement at the final approval hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since the preliminary approval of Anywhere\u2019s settlement, other brokerages, who are not defendants in the Tuccori lawsuit are also looking to opt-in to the settlement. Last Thursday, Fathom Realty<\/strong><\/a> notified Judge Jenkins that it was working to finalize a settlement agreement with the Tuccori plaintiffs in a motion to stay the proceedings. Judge Jenkins approved this motion on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAll deadlines as to Defendant Fathom are stayed so that these parties can focus their efforts on settlement,\u201d she wrote in a minute entry on the court docket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the Batton plaintiffs may not seek to intervene against Fathom\u2019s settlement, they most likely will object to the final approval of this settlement along with Anywhere\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite pushback from the Batton homebuyer commission lawsuit plaintiffs, Anywhere Real Estate\u2019s settlement in the Tuccori homebuyer commission suit obtained preliminary approval last week.\u00a0 Anywhere was initially not a defendant in the combined Tuccori and Cwynar homebuyer suits, but in February, Anywhere asked the Tuccori plaintiffs if it could opt-in to their pre-established homebuyer settlement….<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mk.gen.tr\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}