HLLI filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit supporting states seeking to intervene in East Bay Sanctuary v. Biden, a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s immigration rules.
HLLI advocated to successfully stop $10.5 million in class action funds in the case Hawes v. Macy’s, Inc. from being routed, through settlement cy pres, to a left-wing nonprofit advocacy group with no direct interest in the case. Case No. 1:17-cv-754 (S.D. Ohio 2023).
Holyoak co-founded HLLI with Theodore H. Frank in 2019. She previously served as senior counsel with the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF), now part of HLLI. At HLLI, Holyoak helped return hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers and shareholders.
There is another form of charitable giving, which happens without much fanfare, each year. It is called cy pres, and it often results in money diverted away from people to whom it is owed and toward causes they may or may not support.
Thanks to HLLI's lawsuit, a California law that restricted the rights of doctors to speak freely to their patients is no more.
Thanks to the courage of HLLI’s clients, Governor Newsom and the California State legislature have conceded defeat and repealed AB 2098, a California state law that restricted doctors’ First Amendment free speech rights by threatening disciplinary action against their license for discussing with patients anything about COVID-19 that the State views as “disinformation” or “misinformation.”
HLLI is pleased that Judge Orrick agreed with our opposition thereby preserving $30 million of the settlement to be distributed to class members like Stephens.
The Seventh Circuit agreed with HLLI, vacating a $57 million attorneys’ fee award in the Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation. Theodore H. Frank, who argued the case remarked “this is an important decision that should help consumers win more money from large settlements, where plaintiffs’ attorneys enjoy economies of scale.”
August 23 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington D.C. — On Monday, August 21, the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute fought back against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s unlawful attempts to discriminate against certain viewpoints and engineer social policy outside its statutory mandate with an amicus brief filed in the case CFPB v. Townstone Financial, Inc., pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. HLLI’s brief supports Townstone, a mortgage…
Melissa Holyoak, co-founder of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, has been nominated to serve as Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.