True, assuming a valid contempt charge. My understanding is that a court can not issue a contempt charge against someone not already subject to its jurisdiction. So the MI court would not be able to issue a contempt charge or an arrest warrant for it against someone outside of MI that re-posts the criticism of the class action settlement.

We see the class action as an absolutely essential remedial tool, for example in cases where individual claims are too small to justify paying a lawyer to litigate them. At the same time there is a tendency for defendants to collude with plaintiffs’ lawyers in some cases to settle for as little as possible for the class — a race to the bottom, as it were. By keeping the class action settlement process honest, we preserve this essential tool.

True, but Public Citizen isn’t taking a position on the appropriateness of the settlement or whether this is an appropriate class action. It’s the free speech angle, in my opinion, that pulled Paul Levy into the case. The Judge sees a lawyer trying to muscle into a class action settlement and Paul Levy sees an activist protesting an unfair settlement. I’m firmly in activist camp and hope the injunction is vacated and the class opt-out period is extended.