Venetian Las Vegas Settlement: Fee Bid Filed Oct 20, Claims Nov 24

The lawyers who brought the Venetian Las Vegas settlement filed their request to be paid on October 20, 2026, the date set for it. On the evening of October 20, Pacific time, the court's public filing feed listed two new entries in Vasquez v. Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC, No. 5:25-cv-07934: docket entry 46, filed as an attorney-fee motion, and docket entry 47, filed as a settlement motion. The settlement website had said both would arrive by that date: “Class Counsel will file with the court and post on this website a request for final approval of the settlement and a request for attorneys’ fees by or on October 20, 2026.”

As of October 23, 2026, we have not been able to read either filing. CourtListener has no copy, and the settlement website blocked our requests. So we do not know how much class counsel asked for. The ceiling is set in the settlement: counsel “is entitled to seek no more than one-third of the $1,600,000.00 total”, which is $533,333.33 by our arithmetic, “but the Court may award less than this amount.” Max Vasquez, who brought the case, may also ask for a service award of up to $5,000.00.

Why this matters to you: the fees, the service award and the cost of notice and administration come out of the same two pools as the payments, in proportion. Whatever Judge Casey Pitts does not award in fees stays in the pools and raises every payment. The estimates of about $71.39 if you booked and about $3.60 if you only browsed are the settlement website's own estimates, based on assumed claims rates of 20% and 10%; they are not fixed, and the court decides what fees are paid. You have until November 24, 2026 to object to it, which is also the deadline to file a claim.

Only California residents who used venetianlasvegas.com while they were in California between September 18, 2024 and March 16, 2026 are included. There are two groups, and each has its own pool of money:

• Booking Settlement Class: people who “made a reservation for a Venetian hotel stay through the Venetian Las Vegas website.” Their pool is $931,713.50. The estimate is about $71.39 each, assuming 20% of the group files a claim.
• Browsing Settlement Class: people who “accessed and/or navigated” the site. Their pool is $668,286.50. The estimate is about $3.60 each, assuming 10% of the group files.

Those numbers are estimates, not fixed amounts. Each pool is split equally among the people in that group who file valid claims, so the final amount goes down if more people file than assumed and up if fewer do. In the settlement site's words: “The amount of payment will depend on how many of the Booking Settlement Class Members and Browsing Settlement Class Members file valid claims.”

When would you be paid? Not before the court decides on the settlement. The final approval hearing is on December 3, 2026. If the court approves the settlement, approved claimants are paid “45 days after the Settlement has been finally approved and/or any appeals process is complete.” You get a check unless you choose PayPal or Venmo on the claim form, and checks “expire and become void 180 days after they are issued.”

The settlement notice says only that Venetian allegedly shared website users’ “guest record information and confidential communications to third parties.” The 49-page complaint, filed on September 17, 2025, is more specific. It names the third parties: “Heap Inc. (‘Heap’); Google LLC (‘Google’); and Meta Platforms, Inc. (‘Meta’)”. Heap, it notes, was acquired by Contentsquare. The complaint alleges that whenever someone booked a room through the site, those companies learned “which suites they stayed in, on which dates they came and on which dates they left, along with how many adults and children they had with them. If they asked for an upgrade the third parties knew that too.”

One example in the complaint: the Meta Pixel allegedly picked up a click on “ADD VIEW UPGRADE”, showing that a guest had chosen a Sphere View room for “an additional $68 per night.” The complaint says Meta could link this kind of data to a specific person through Facebook cookies. One of them, the c_user cookie, allegedly “contains, at least, the user’s unencrypted Facebook ID” and lasts 365 days. The complaint also relies on California Civil Code § 53.5, which treats a hotel’s “guest record” as confidential. It cites the CIPA damages provision, which allows “$5,000 per violation.”

These are the plaintiff’s allegations. Venetian “denies that it violated any law,” and the court has not decided who is right. The complaint first proposed a single class of all California residents who visited the site from California. The settlement splits that into a browsing group and a booking group, and the bookers, whose details were allegedly shared, get the much larger share per person. Class counsel are Philip L. Fraietta and Stefan Bogdanovich of Bursor & Fisher, P.A.

Yes, the settlement is real. It is a federal court case, and the genuine notices point to a single website, VenetianLasVegasSettlement.com. The administrator's phone number is 1-877-367-1772 and its mailing address is P.O. Box 3278, Portland, OR 97208-3278. The site says filing online “is completely free”. It also asks people not to call the court: “PLEASE DO NOT TELEPHONE THE COURT OR THE COURT CLERK’S OFFICE TO INQUIRE ABOUT THIS SETTLEMENT OR THE CLAIM PROCESS.” A message that asks for a fee, a bank login or a Social Security number, or that sends you to a different website, did not come from this settlement. Type the address into your browser yourself instead of clicking a link. Our September 30 report shows what the real email and claim login look like.

Getting an email does not mean you are in the class. Only California residents who used the site from California during the class period are included. If that is not you, you have no claim here and give up nothing.

Can I refuse to pay resort fees in Vegas? This settlement does not help with that. It covers only the website-tracking claims under the California Invasion of Privacy Act, not what the Venetian charges for a stay. For hotel fees, the relevant rule is federal. Since May 12, 2025, the FTC’s Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees (16 C.F.R. Part 464) has applied to short-term lodging. It requires businesses to include “fees people are required to pay, no matter what” in the total price they display. The FTC’s compliance guide lists a hotel “environmental fee” that is not actually used for the environment as an example of a possible violation. Complaints about hotel pricing go to the FTC, not to this settlement’s administrator.

The Venetian case is one of several California website-tracking settlements with deadlines this fall. Another is the $10 million Forbes tracker settlement, also limited to Californians. You can find other deadlines on our list of open class action settlements.