CCAF Objects to Egregious 30% Fee Grab by Counsel in Polyurethane Class Suit Settlement

CCAF attorney Anna St. John said, “If awarded in full, the excessive fee requested by class counsel would transfer to plaintiffs’ attorneys tens of millions of dollars that rightfully belong to class members. It’s an all-too-common example of attorneys purporting to represent consumers harmed by unlawful business practices, when in reality these attorneys try to harm those same consumers again by seeking far more than they are entitled to by law.”

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November 13, 2015
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Amicus Brief: Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation

CCAF is concerned the Judicial Panel will not consider judicial track records in scrutinizing the fairness of settlements when deciding who to transfer the case to.

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October 20, 2015
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U.S. court voids payout of unclaimed funds in BofA class action

(Reuters) - A federal district judge abused her discretion in awarding a nonprofit money left over from a $490 million securities class-action settlement concerning the 1998 merger of BankAmerica and NationsBank that created Bank of America Corp, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.

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January 8, 2015
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Seventh Circuit Continues Scrutiny Of Class Action Settlements And ‘Cy Pres’

Judge Posner agreed with little of what the lower court determined, but he found the trial judge's refusal to consider the cy pres amount in calculating the class benefit correct "for the obvious reason that the recipient of that award was not a member of the class."

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November 26, 2014
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Judge Tosses Glucosamine Settlement

Posner, ruling in favor of objectors in Pearson v. NBTY, outlines a series of conflicts and deceptions that any class-action lawyer worth her salt would sue over in an instant. But in this case it was the lawyers who perpetrated them, with the help of a judge who was all too willing to overlook the economic realities of the consumer class-action business.

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November 20, 2014
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Oral Argument in Pearson v. NBTY, Inc.

See the opening brief for what "is perhaps the best 13,000-word summary of CCAF philosophy."

Oral Argument in <em>Pearson v. NBTY, Inc.</em>

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October 7, 2014
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Federal Appeals Court Declares Radioshack Corporation (RSH) Class-Action Settlement Void

Ted Frank, a lawyer who also represented a couple in the case, was happy with the court’s decision. He went further to say that the beneficiaries should be the class members, and any settlement should be based on actual recovery and not inflated figures that won’t benefit the class.

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September 21, 2014
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Appeals Court Rejects $1 Million Fee In Radio Shack Coupon Settlement

The judge allowed the plaintiff lawyers to submit their fee request after the objection period ended, hamstringing objectors including Ted Frank's Center for Class Action Fairness, which nevertheless scored a big win here.

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September 19, 2014
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U.S. court voids RadioShack class-action settlement over card receipts

Ted Frank, a critic of what he considers excessive legal fees and who represented a couple opposing the RadioShack settlement, in a phone interview welcomed the decision.

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September 19, 2014
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McClellan: Divvying Up $2.7 Million in Leftovers

"The big question was this: Why should money belonging to the class members be given to a charity — no matter how much the judge and the class-action lawyers like the charity? The judge in this instance is U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson. The lawyers are from the firm of Green Jacobson."

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September 12, 2014
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