“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."
Amanda Bronstad: In Wednesday’s decision, the Eleventh Circuit instructed that the district judge should “consider the points raised by Frank in this appeal” when reevaluating the settlement’s approval, including “whether the proposed attorneys’ fees are disproportionately large compared to the amount of relief reasonably expected to be provided to the class.”
Law360's covers the conclusion of the Stericycle litigation, where HLLI represented an objector who successfully won vacatur of an excessive $11.25 million fee award in the Seventh Circuit.
SCOTUSblog's Kalvis Golde highlighted the pair of cert petitions filed by HLLI in St. John v. Jones and Yeatman v. Hyland.
Law360 covered the First Circuit's decision upholding sanctions against Class Counsel Firm Lieff Cabraser in the State Street case.
Kelly House at Bridge Michigan covered the decision awarding fees in the In re: Flint Water Cases case and quotes HLLI attorney Frank Bednarz on the award.
Daniel Fisher at Legal Newsline covered the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute's objection to the settlement in Rael v. The Children’s Place, Inc., which resulted in an order delaying attorneys fees until after the coupon redemption rate is known. A federal judge in California approved the settlement of lawsuit against The Children’s Place for allegedly misleading consumers about the value of “sale” items. But U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel in California…
Josh Blackman of the Volokh Conspiracy at Reason.com congratulated HLLI for its free speech victory in Greenberg v. Haggerty. In December, a federal district court declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania's version of ABA Model Rule 8.4(g). The judge reiterated points that Eugene Volokh and I have been making for years: this rule may be well intentioned, but it violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. In January, the Pennsylvania Bar filed a…
“I’m confident that one day this decade a different court of appeals will disagree with one of those Posner opinions, the Supreme Court will take up the circuit split, and then tell us that Posner was right all along,” Frank said.
