On Friday, October 19th, 2018, the Court approved a three month extension of the claims deadline in relation to the class action settlement on behalf of students of the Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf (“Drury”), the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf (“Whitney”), and the Robarts School for the Deaf (“Robarts”) and their predecessors (collectively, the “Schools for the Deaf Class Action”). The claims deadline has been extended to January 24, 2019. We kindly ask that you please post the attached Notice-Claims Deadline Extensionabout the settlement on your website, distribute it on any listservs your agency maintains and/or otherwise re-distribute it in a manner that will likely come to the attention of class members, such as via a text message blast.
If a Class Member wishes to make a claim for money from the settlement, their completed claim form needs to be sent to (postmarked to) the Administrator on or before January 24, 2019.
Also, attached is a blank Claim Form that can be used by Class Members to make a claim. ASL video of the claim form is available here: http://www.schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca/make-a-claim.html.
In addition, attached are the Long Form and Short Form Notices which provide details about the class action and how class members can make a claim under the settlement. Links to the ASL videos of these notices are available here: http://www.schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca/documents.html.
Additional information regarding this class action is available on the administration website www.schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca.
Schools for the Deaf Class Action Administrator
3-505, 133 Weber St N
Waterloo, ON N2J 3G9
Toll Free: 1-855-823-0656
TTY: 1-877-627-7027
Toll Free Fax: 1-888-842-1332
Email: Schoolabuseclassaction@crawco.ca
Website: www.schoolsforthedeafclassaction.ca
Forms:
Settlement Approval – Long Form Notice
Settlement Approval – Short Form Notice
Notice – Claims Deadline Extension
