( October 17, 2023, 2:37 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied a class settlement objector’s petition for rehearing or rehearing en banc after the appellate judges determined that a trial court employed the wrong legal standard when it approved a settlement between The New York Times and subscribers in a case over auto renewals and erred in finding that the access codes provided as part of the settlement were not coupons under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) but reiterated the holding in Melito v. Experian Marketing Solutions, Inc. and ruled “that incentive awards are not per se unlawful.”...