Today, Pennsylvania enforcement officials abandoned their appeal from a district court decision enjoining them from enforcing a state rule that infringed the free speech rights of Pennsylvania attorneys.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – A federal court based in Philadelphia today preliminarily enjoined enforcement of a Rule of Professional Conduct aimed at disciplining attorneys for their speech. HLLI challenged Rule 8.4(g) on behalf of attorney Zachary Greenberg, a Pennsylvania-licensed attorney working for a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of students’ constitutional rights and regularly speaks at legal education and other professional events on a variety of hot-button legal…
Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute (HLLI) announced today the departure of president & general counsel Melissa A. Holyoak, who is leaving to serve as Utah Solicitor General. Holyoak co-founded HLLI with Theodore H. Frank in 2019. HLLI also announced that Anna St. John will serve as its next president.
“This decision simply delays the day of reckoning for this unfair practice,” said Ted Frank, Director of Litigation and Senior Attorney at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute.
In January 2019, CCAF will become part of the new Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, a free-market nonprofit public-interest law firm created by CEI/CCAF litigators Ted Frank and Melissa Holyoak.
Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a landmark case brought by the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) challenging an unfair class action settlement in which lawyers and their hand-picked universities and pet causes got millions while class members got nothing.
The who, what, why, and how of CCAF's Supreme Court argument.
Today the Center for Class Action Fairness filed a supplemental brief with the Supreme Court, arguing the Ninth Circuit’s decision in the EasySaver case earlier this month underscores the need for its proposed standard governing cy pres settlements in class action suits when the court decides Frank v. Gaos. “EasySaver is a disturbing example of how the Ninth Circuit’s lenient approach to cy pres in class action settlements creates an incentive for class attorneys to favor sending money to their preferred…
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (now also represented by Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute) and four individuals – John France, Daniel Frank, Jean-Claude Gruffat, and Charles Haywood – filed an appeal today with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, seeking to overturn unlawful conditions imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on a merger between three major U.S. cable companies. In 2015, Charter, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House…
“We are gratified that the court rejected class counsel’s attempt to evade the Class Action Fairness Act’s restrictions on coupon settlements, but the fact that the court was willing to countenance attorneys choosing to prefer their alma mater and local San Diego schools to nationwide class recovery while collecting 15 to 40 times as much as their clients shows why the Supreme Court needs to reverse in Frank v. Gaos. We are considering our options for further review.”
