City Journal: A Judiciary, Not a Legislature
HLLI founder Ted Frank authored a City Journal piece about activist plaintiffs using "nuisance lawsuits" to create environmental regulations.
Local News Matters Bay Area: $43 million Google data privacy class action settlement to go to nonprofit organizations
Local News Matters Bay Area reported on HLLI's objection to In re Google Location History Litigation. He [Ted Frank] argued that judges shouldn’t be diverting money from class members to third parties. He said that under the settlement, class members were giving up their individual claims to fund organizations they had no connection to. The absurdity of that structure, he argued, was that a class member who “opted out” — that…
National Review: Columbia University Leaders Sued for Failing to Ensure Campus Safety. Could Protesters be Next?
National Review reported on HLLI's potential lawsuits against organizations that engaged in anti-Israel protests that blocked traffic. In December, the Wall Street Journal editorial board suggested using “creative class actions” to hit mobs of anti-Israel protesters “in their pocketbooks.” Lawyers with the free-market Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute are exploring legal action against the organizers of well-planned protests that blocked highways and bridges in major cities. Ned Hedley, a lawyer with the institute, told National Review that there…
ABA Journal: Supreme Court won’t hear lawyer’s challenge to anti-bias ethics rule
ABA Journal reported on HLLI's representation of Zachary Greenberg in Greenberg v. Lehocky.
Cook County Record: Class action objector hawk Ted Frank will be allowed to intervene in investor lawsuit, challenging ‘mootness fees’
Scott Holland at the Cook County Record detailed HLLI's recent Seventh Circuit win in the Akorn cases.
Reuters: US appeals court decision may deter M&A disclosure-only shareholder suits
Alison Frankel reported on the implications of HLLI's appellate victory yesterday in Akorn, which allows HLLI director Ted Frank to intervene against strike suit plaintiffs.
The Register: Google location tracking deal could be derailed by politics
The Register covered the objection to the Google Location History settlement filed by the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute.
The National Law Journal: 7th Circuit Lets Shareholder Intervene in Mootness Fees Spat
The National Law Journal covered HLLI's intervention in Carlyle v. Akorn.
Reuters: Judge reinstates Wawa class action fee award shot down by appeals court
Reuters covered HLLI's objection In re Wawa, Inc. Data Security in which Wawa settled the case for $12.2 million and gave $9 million in gift cards and other compensation to 22 million consumers.
Law360: Ill. Judge Needs More Info To OK $57M Chicken Antitrust Fee
Law360 covered post-remand proceedings concerning an attorneys' fee award that HLLI's John Andren successfully vacated in his appeal from In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation.
