Ted Frank

Google Privacy Case To Test Limits Of Novel Settlements

Law360 cited CCAF attorney Anna St. John and Director of Litigation Ted Frank after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear CEI's case, Frank v. Gaos. CEI hopes the court rules in our favor and creates a standard that forbids attorneys from misusing class action settlements to selfishly put themselves and third parties ahead of their clients.​ Justices are set for the first time to consider the cy pres remedy, which distributes awards in class actions to parties…

Google Privacy Case To Test Limits Of Novel Settlements

Class Settlement Flaw Exposed in Case Over Smart Phone Batteries

Bloomberg Law discusses our ninth-circuit appeal in the lithium ion antitrust litigation: A possible vehicle for federal courts to revisit the inconsistent treatment comes in an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by a class action advocacy group. The Center for Class Action Fairness is seeking to undo an October 2017 settlement in In Re: Lithium Ion Batteries Antitrust Litigation, a multi-district lawsuit on a price-fixing…

Class Settlement Flaw Exposed in Case Over Smart Phone Batteries
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WSJ: Congress Can Rescind the CFPB’s Gift to Trial Lawyers

Do Americans need more lawsuits? They’ll get them if the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has its way. The CFPB—created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and still run by an Obama appointee—issued a rule in July barring financial institutions from including arbitration clauses in their contracts with customers. That means disputes would have to be settled by class-action lawsuits, which mostly benefit lawyers. The agency justifies its rule by claiming it…

<em>WSJ</em>: Congress Can Rescind the CFPB’s Gift to Trial Lawyers

3rd Circ. Asked To Nix Approval of $5.5M Google Privacy Deal

Not only did class counsel make no effort to distribute any money to the class here, but there are obvious conflicts of interest associated with the cy pres recipients, Frank asserted, noting that Google is a regular donor to four of the entities and co-lead class counsel Brian Strange is board chairman of another, Public Counsel.

3rd Circ. Asked To Nix Approval of $5.5M Google Privacy Deal

Critics hit law firms’ bills after class-action lawsuits

The Boston Globe discusses Thornton Law Firm's legal fees in class-action lawsuits with the Center for Class Action Fairness's founder Ted Frank. Critics of the way lawyers are paid in class-action lawsuits acknowledge that firms often dramatically mark up the rates of their lower-paid attorneys when seeking legal fees in court, but they say Thornton has pushed the practice to an extreme. “This happens all the time,” said Ted Frank, a lawyer…

Critics hit law firms’ bills after class-action lawsuits
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