Common use of Consumer Settlement Class Clause in Contracts

Consumer Settlement Class. Subject to the approval of the MDL Court, and for the purposes of this Multistate Settlement Agreement only, the Parties agree and consent to the certification of a Consumer Settlement Class defined as follows: All natural persons (excluding the Released Parties, and further excluding such persons who timely and properly request exclusion from this class) who (i) reside in a Settling State; and (ii) at any time during the Relevant Period purchased Indirect Vitamin Products in a Settling State for use or consumption by themselves and/or others and not for resale in any form. References in this Multistate Settlement Agreement to the Consumer Settlement Class are also references, where the context requires, to parens patriae claims asserted by Settling States on behalf of natural persons residing in their respective jurisdictions.