Docket number: No. 12-cv-10064 (N.D. Ill.)
CCAF’s client objected to a fee request where class counsel sought 30% of the $75.4 million settlement fund in a lightly-litigated Telephone Consumer Protection Act case.
CCAF successfully sought discovery from class counsel regarding their lodestar (the actual time class counsel spent on the case) and their track record in other TCPA class actions. Discovery revealed that class counsel was requesting over $5300/hour for this case and was routinely compensated over $1000/hour, win or lose, for so-called “risky” TCPA litigation.
The district court reduced class counsel’s fees by $6.9 million. CCAF appealed, arguing that even this reduction overcompensated class counsel under Seventh Circuit law, but later voluntarily dismissed when CCAF’s client decided not to continue with the appeal.
Case Documents
| Description | |
| May 04, 2015 | BRIEF of Objectors-Appellants Jeffrey Collins et al. |
| Feb 15, 2015 | COURT RULING Opinion and Order of the U.S. District Court, N.D. Illinois |
| Dec 05, 2014 | BRIEF of Objector Jeffrey Collins Supporting Objection to Attorneys’ Fees |
| Dec 05, 2014 | EXPERT REPORT of M. Todd Henderson |
| Oct 27, 2014 | OBJECTION of Jeffrey Collins to Proposed Class Action Settlement |