Reuters: Class action watchdog blasts $33 mln legal fee bid in controversial Verizon surcharge deal
Reuters covered HLLI challenging forum shopping tactics that could result in plaintiffs' lawyers getting $8 million in undeserved legal fees.
Reuters covered HLLI challenging forum shopping tactics that could result in plaintiffs' lawyers getting $8 million in undeserved legal fees.
Hamodia, a popular Orthodox Jewish newspaper, interviewed our co-founder, Ted Frank, about the possibility of bringing civil lawsuits against organizations who engaged in traffic-blocking protests.
The New York Post highlighted the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute's unique legal strategy for possibly suing organizations who engaged in traffic-blocking protests.
Jason Riley wrote about the possibility of suing anti-Israel traffic-blocking protestors, as HLLI co-founder Ted Frank suggested.
The New York Post wrote about the chair of Harvard's antisemitism task force being accused of antisemitism.
HLLI's president, Anna St. John wrote an opinion article in the American Spectator arguing that the ‘Sullivan’ precedent, has no basis in the history of the First Amendment, and recent events illustrate why the Court should heed calls to reexamine its misguided precedent.
Director of Litigation Ted Frank appeared on the Jason Rantz Show to discuss a potential legal action against organized activists blocking major highways like Seattle’s I-5, Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, and New York’s Holland Tunnel.
HLLI advocated to successfully stop $10.5 million in class action funds in the case Hawes v. Macy’s, Inc. from being routed, through settlement cy pres, to a left-wing nonprofit advocacy group with no direct interest in the case. Case No. 1:17-cv-754 (S.D. Ohio 2023).
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.