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.
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Thanks to the courage of HLLI’s clients, Governor Newsom and the California State legislature have conceded defeat and repealed AB 2098, a California state law that restricted doctors’ First Amendment free speech rights by threatening disciplinary action against their license for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 is pleased that Judge Orrick agreed with our opposition thereby preserving $30 million of the settlement to be distributed to class members like Stephens.
Forbes profiles the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and its director Theodore H. Frank. William Baldwin explains how class action settlements work, and why Ted “is not a popular figure in the litigation bar.”
Ted Frank appears on the Future of Freedom podcast to rebut Prof. Brian Fitzpatrick's contention that conservatives should prefer class actions to government regulation.
Cook County Record: The panel vacated the award and remanded the request for legal fees, suggesting Durkin reappropriate the weight given to auction bids and Ninth Circuit litigation while also allowing him to re-evaluate Andren’s request to order additional discovery on the expert reports class counsel submitted to bolster their request.
“We’re grateful for the opinion, and hope it will ultimately result in the class getting more money,” said Ted Frank, an attorney for Andren as well as the director of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness.
Ted Frank, director at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness, on Wednesday said they hoped the ruling "will ultimately result in the class getting more money."
The Seventh Circuit agreed with HLLI, vacating a $57 million attorneys’ fee award in the Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation. Theodore H. Frank, who argued the case remarked “this is an important decision that should help consumers win more money from large settlements, where plaintiffs’ attorneys enjoy economies of scale.”
