Northern District of California rejects $30 million cy pres proposal in JUUL MDL
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.
Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board
HLLI joined the American Civil Rights Project and the Manhattan Institute to support Coalition for TJ's petition for certiorari challenging Fairfax County School Board's race-based admissions scheme as a violation of the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee.
Forbes: The Lawyer Taking On The Class Action Racket
Forbes profiles the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and its director Theodore H. Frank. William Baldwin explains how class action settlements work, and why Ted “is not a popular figure in the litigation bar.”
Hawes v. Macy’s Inc.
HLLI opposed a settlement that would deliver most of its promised relief to the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a left-wing advocacy group, instead of class members. The district court agreed with HLLI and rejected the settlement.
Federal appeals panel vacates $57M fee award in $181M settlement ending chicken price-fixing class action
Cook County Record: The panel vacated the award and remanded the request for legal fees, suggesting Durkin reappropriate the weight given to auction bids and Ninth Circuit litigation while also allowing him to re-evaluate Andren’s request to order additional discovery on the expert reports class counsel submitted to bolster their request.
Bloomberg: Chicken Case’s Attorney Fees Must Change, Seventh Circuit Finds
“We’re grateful for the opinion, and hope it will ultimately result in the class getting more money,” said Ted Frank, an attorney for Andren as well as the director of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness.
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Reuters: $57 million fee award for consumer lawyers scratched in chicken antitrust appeal
Ted Frank, director at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness, on Wednesday said they hoped the ruling "will ultimately result in the class getting more money."
HLLI wins vacatur of $57 million fee award in Broiler Chicken Antitrust
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.”
Sharpe v. A&W Concentrate Co.
HLLI represents its director, Theodore H. Frank, in objecting to a purported “$15 million settlement” that in fact delivers perhaps $2 million to class members, and earmarks $3.2 million for attorneys’ fees.
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HLLI Files Amicus Brief in Support of Townstone Financial
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…
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