Litigation Over PayPal Holds Languishes in Court

A pair of cases involving multiple sellers suing over PayPal's policy of holding funds continue to linger in a California court, the march toward settlement slowed by dubious attorney conduct, mutual assertions of negotiating in bad faith from the litigants, and the emergence of new plaintiffs seeking to intervene in the actions. The class-action cases — Fernando vs. eBay and Zepeda vs. PayPal — both date to 2010, each involving a group of sellers who brought various allegations against the payment provider and its parent company for holding sellers’ funds for up to 180 days or longer.