08/23/2024 Update:

COURT GRANTS PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO DEALERSHIP SETTLEMENT WITH CDK

On August 23, 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer preliminarily approved the settlement with CDK. The Court’s preliminary approval order is available here. A program to provide formal notice of this settlement to CDK settlement class members will begin on September 23, 2024, at which time the claims submission process will open. In the meantime, questions may be directed to Class Counsel Peggy J. Wedgworth, Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC, Tel: 1-646-515-1269, pwedgworth@milberg.com; or Leonard A. Bellavia, Bellavia Blatt, PC, Tel: 1-516-873-3000, lbellavia@dealerlaw.com.


08/16/2024 Update:

CDK AGREES TO $100 MILLION SETTLEMENT AND UP TO $250,000 IN NOTICE AND CLAIMS ADMINISTRATION COSTS

On August 16, 2024, Dealership Plaintiffs filed a Motion for Preliminary Approval of a proposed class action settlement that has been reached with Defendant, CDK Global, LLC. If approved by the Court, the CDK Settlement will resolve claims involving an alleged conspiracy by CDK and Reynolds to charge unlawful prices in the markets for Dealer Management System (“DMS”) Services and Data Integration Services (“DIS”). CDK denies any wrongdoing and the Court has not ruled that CDK did anything wrong or violated any law.

As part of the Settlement, CDK has agreed to pay $100 million for the benefit of U.S.-based retail automotive dealerships that bought a Reynolds or CDK DMS from September 1, 2013, through August 15, 2024. CDK will also pay up to $250,000 for notice and claims administration costs. The CDK Settlement Agreement, Motion for Preliminary Approval, as well as other important documents related to the CDK settlement, are available for review here.

If the Court preliminarily approves the CDK Settlement, formal notice will be issued to the CDK Settlement Class, and additional information will be made available, including the claims submission process, on this website.

A prior settlement with Reynolds in the amount of $29,500,000 was approved by the Court in 2019. If you are a member of the Reynolds Settlement Class, you may also be entitled to money back as part of that settlement. If the Court gives final approval to the CDK Settlement, the funds from both the CDK and Reynolds Settlements will be distributed.

Information will be updated on this website once the Court rules on the Motion for Preliminary Approval.