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.
Alison Frankel wrote about HLLI's successful appeal of a $3.2 million attorneys' fee award in the Wawa Data Security settlement, where the district court awarded attorneys more than the class.
HLLI fought back against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to enforce its Title VI regulation as a catch-all, all-purpose disparate-impact regulation in the face of legal precedent foreclosing EPA’s novel interpretation. The court enjoined enforcement of the new interpretation.
The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute successfully represented an objector challenging a proposed settlement to the extent the court exercises the option to divert all or part of the $37 million fund to third parties rather than to the class.
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Thanks to the courage of HLLI’s clients, Governor Newsom and the California State legislature have conceded defeat and repealed AB 2098, a California state law that restricted doctors’ First Amendment free speech rights by threatening disciplinary action against their license for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 filed an amicus brief in support of Parents Defending Education's challenge to the unconstitutional speech restrictions in the Olentangy Local School District's student code of conduct, which ban "misgendering" other students by using the "wrong" pronoun to address them or speak about them.
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.
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.
