Reminds me of the movie The Jerk. Steve Martin invents a device that holds you glasses up on your nose so they don't slide down, makes him a millionaire. Then, every sues him because the little piece you attach to the glasses apparently causes you to go cross-eyed. The greatest part is him writing out thousands of checks, each for $1.09. Which is probably more than these ex-AT&T customers are going to get.
I once got an $7 check from Morgan Stanley, which was apparently a settlement for them losing their customers millions of dollars with cooked books and other bad accounting practices (I don't even recall getting a notice to participate in the class-action lawsuit). Yay justice!