A recent NLJ story, “Calif. Judge, Often Reversed, is Removed From Barbri Antitrust Class Action,” reports that a federal appeals court ordered the removal of a California judge who is overseeing...
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Texas Supreme Court Issues Two Attorney Fee Rulings
April 19, 2016
A recent Texas Lawyer story, “Texas Supreme Court Issues Two Attorney Fee Rulings” reports that the Texas Supreme Court today issued two rulings that favored parties seeking attorney fees in a...
Judge Rejects Fee Request for Untimeliness
April 18, 2016
A recent Law 360 story, “Marvel Loses Atty Fee Fight After Key Spider-Man IP Win” reports that an Arizona federal judge shot down Marvel Entertainment LLC’s request for attorneys' fees after it...
Judge Denies $3M in Costs in Drywall Antitrust Case
April 15, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “Judge Denies $3.18M in Costs in Drywall Antitrust Case” reports that the federal judge presiding over the domestic drywall antitrust litigation has denied...
Judge Balks at Hourly Rates in Patent Fee Award
April 6, 2016
A recent New Jersey Law Journal story, “Judge OKs Fees in Kayak.com Suit but Balks at K&L Gates’ Rates” reports that a federal judge in Camden, NJ has ruled that the operator of travel...
Plaintiffs Ask SCOTUS to Hear NCAA Fee Dispute
March 30, 2016
A recent Courthouse News story, “NCAA’s Legal Debt Reduced to $40.7 Million” reports that lawyers for the Ed O'Bannon plaintiffs on asked the Supreme Court to hear their antitrust case against...
A recent New York Law Journal story, “Circuit Denies En Banc Review in Fee Award Fight,” reports that a civil rights attorney fighting a 95 percent reduction in his fee award failed to convince a...
Article: Attorney Fees in MDL Cases Lack Case Law
March 14, 2016
A recent NLJ article, “The Wild West of Fee Fights” reports that fee fights among plaintiffs attorneys in multidistrict litigation have forced more federal judges in recent cases to wade into the...
A recent Law360 story, “Ethanol Co. Wants $1M Attys’ Fee Award Knocked Down” reports that an ethanol company that successfully wiped out a $36 million judgment after appealing a derivative suit...
Judge Awards Attorney Fees in ERISA Case
March 2, 2016
A recent Legal Intelligencer story, “$567,000 in Attorney Fees Awarded in ERISA Case,” reports that a federal judge has awarded $567,000 in attorney fees to a lawyer working on an ERISA case that...