Mass. High Court: IOLTA Committee Can Appeal Class Settlement Notice, Not Fairness

( April 16, 2026, 10:14 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — The Massachusetts Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) Committee can appeal following a class settlement approval to challenge an alleged failure to provide timely notice of the settlement or the opportunity to be heard on whether it should receive residual funds, but the committee lacks standing to contest a “settlement’s over-all fairness, reasonableness, or adequacy, or otherwise attack the validity of its terms,” the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a landlord/tenant class dispute....