California residents who booked a Venetian Las Vegas hotel stay through the resort’s website between September 18, 2024 and March 16, 2026 can file a claim for an estimated $71 by November 24, 2026. The settlement does not concern room rates or resort fees. It resolves a lawsuit over what the Venetian’s website allegedly passed to outside companies, and the dollar figure is a projected share of a fixed fund, not a set payment.
A website-privacy case, not a room-rate case
The case is Vasquez v. Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC, before U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts in the Northern District of California. The suit says the Venetian disclosed website users’ guest record information and confidential communications to third parties without permission, in violation of California Penal Code sections 631 and 632, the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
Sections 631 and 632 of the California Penal Code are the state’s wiretapping and confidential-communication provisions, and CIPA claims against company websites have generally argued that tracking tools on a site amount to recording visitors’ activity. The administrator’s page frames the Venetian case in those terms: guest record information and confidential communications, passed to third parties without permission.
The Venetian denies violating any law, according to the settlement administrator’s website, and settled to avoid the cost and uncertainty of continuing. Judge Pitts gave preliminary approval on August 14, 2026. Nothing on the page says the court has found the Venetian did anything wrong.
Two classes are defined, and both are limited to California residents who were in California between September 18, 2024 and March 16, 2026. The Booking Settlement Class is people who made a reservation for a Venetian hotel stay through venetianlasvegas.com. The Browsing Settlement Class is people who accessed or navigated that website.
The window runs almost 18 months, from September 18, 2024 to March 16, 2026, and both classes are tied to California residents who were in California during it. A booking or a site visit outside those dates is outside the class.
For a California resident who stayed in Las Vegas in that window, the question is whether the reservation was made on the Venetian’s own website and from within California. A stay booked through a travel site or by phone does not fit the Booking class as the administrator defines it, and a person who booked while traveling outside California does not fit either class.
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How an estimate of $71.39 gets built
The Booking class has a fund of $931,713.50. The administrator assumes 20 percent of class members will file valid claims and estimates a pro rata share of approximately $71.39 per class member. That figure is the source of the headline’s estimated $71.
A pro rata share is a slice of a fixed pot divided by the number of valid claims. Settlement administration expenses, the attorneys’ fee award and the service award are paid proportionally out of both funds, the page says, so the amount that reaches a claimant is what is left after those costs. The estimate moves if more or fewer people file than the 20 percent assumed.
Both rates are built on the assumption that most class members will not file. That assumption is what keeps the per-person figure at $71.39 instead of a few dollars. If the real claims rate comes in higher, the same $931,713.50 is split among more people.
The Browsing class is smaller money. Its fund is $668,286.50, the assumed claims rate is 10 percent, and the estimated pro rata share is approximately $3.60 per class member. Someone who only browsed the site is looking at the price of a coffee, not a room-night. The administrator lists the two as separate classes with separate funds.
Together the two funds come to $1,600,000. The settlement is a payout to people whose website activity was allegedly shared, not a refund of anything paid to the hotel, which is why the amounts have no connection to what a room cost.
November 24 and the December 3 hearing
The claim deadline is November 24, 2026, and it is also the deadline to object to the settlement or to exclude oneself from it. A class member deciding whether to stay in, object or opt out has one date to work to, 26 days from today.
The Final Approval Hearing is set for December 3, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. Judge Pitts decides then whether to approve the settlement as written, and the per-person estimates are tied to that approval and to the final count of valid claims. A claim filed in November is therefore a claim in the queue, not money already allocated.
The claim-tracking site ClaimDepot lists the roughly $71 payment and the November 24 deadline under a resort heading, but the administrator’s page is explicit that the claims are about website privacy. The class definitions come from the administrator’s page.
The settled points are the class definitions, the two funds, the November 24 deadline and the December 3 hearing. Still open is the amount: $71.39 and $3.60 are estimates built on assumed claim rates of 20 and 10 percent, and the real numbers depend on how many people file and what the court allows for fees and costs. The court, not the estimate, sets the final figure.
Booked the Venetian online from California?
A California resident who booked the Venetian’s website between September 2024 and March 2026 has until November 24 to file, and the stake is simple: November 24 is the last day to file, whatever the final approval hearing decides.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
