In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation

The settling attorneys argue they should be paid 38% of the $181 million settlement fund as fees and costs, which is nearly triple the percentage typically awarded in a settlement of this size. The fee request is also more than twice what one of the lead firms has bid as a percentage fee award in two other antitrust cases.

Green v. Miss USA

HLLI filed an amicus brief for Pinnacle Peak Pictures in support of the First Amendment free association rights of Miss USA. The Ninth Circuit agreed with the amicus that the First Amendment guarantees the right to produce content consistent with their beliefs.

303 Creative LLC v. Elenis

HLLI, joining with the Cato Institute, filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant review of a case where the lower court would compel a web designer to create sites conveying messages that she opposes, and did so by creating a troubling “monopoly” rationale that has no support in First Amendment law or reality.

Gupta v. Bonta

Raj Gupta challenges a new California law that would curtail free speech around virtually every clinic, hospital, and pharmacy in the state.

Williams v. Reckitt Benckiser LLC

Theodore H. Frank objects to a class action settlement involving Neuriva-branded nutritional supplements that will pay class members perhaps one third of the $2.9 million fee request that plaintiffs’ counsel seek for themselves.

Bride-to-be Sues the District of Columbia to End Ban on Wedding Dancing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE            Washington, DC (May 9, 2021) – Monday morning, the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, in a joint effort with the Liberty Justice Center, filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Washington DC bride-to-be, Margaret Appleby, challenging DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s recent executive order banning wedding dancing. In the 1984 Kevin Bacon classic, Footloose, a puritanical minister played by John Lithgow persuaded the town counsel of fictional Bomont to ban…

Appleby v. Bowser

The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed suit against the District of Columbia, Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Attorney General Karl Racine to block the enforcement of the newly enacted rule banning wedding dancing, a unique form of expressive activity protected by the First Amendment.

<em>Appleby v. Bowser</em>
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Court delays $1.1 million payment to lawyers until class redeems coupons

Daniel Fisher at Legal Newsline covered the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute's objection to the settlement in Rael v. The Children’s Place, Inc., which resulted in an order delaying attorneys fees until after the coupon redemption rate is known. A federal judge in California approved the settlement of lawsuit against The Children’s Place for allegedly misleading consumers about the value of “sale” items. But U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel in California…

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