McDonald's Settles Class Action Over Misrepresenting Chicken As Halal

According to the Detroit Free Press, a Michigan trial court on Wednesday approved a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought against McDonald's for sometimes selling non-Halal chicken products to customers as Halal meat. Two McDonald's restaurants in Dearborn, Michigan are the only two U,S. outlets of the restaurant chain that serve Halal chicken. Under the settlement, McDonald's will pay $700,000. Of that only $25,000 goes to the lead plaintiff in the case. $275,000 goes to a Muslim health center in Detroit; $150,000 goes to the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn; and $250,000 goes for attorneys' fees. Critics of the settlement argue that more of it should have gone to individual Muslims impacted by the restaurants' actions.  For two months, an injunction had effectively shut down a Facebook page critical of the settlement.