A recent Law 360 story by Marco Poggio, “Judge Initially Oks 53 Firms’ Fee Plan in GM Ignition MDL,” reports that a federal judge in Manhattan pushed forward a plan for a three-tier system for...
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A recent Texas Lawyer story by Angela Morris, “Six Flags Wants Insurer Travelers Casualty to Cover $2.89 Million in Attorney Fees,” reports that the Texas-based theme park filed new litigation...
SCOTUS Won’t Hear IP Attorney Fee Claim
May 17, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Dani Kass, “’Radical’ IP Atty Fee Claim Doesn’t Strike Justices’ Interest,” reports that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a patent-holding company's attempt to...
NRA Agrees To Pay Creditors’ Chapter 11 Fees
May 15, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Vince Sullivan, “NRA Reaches Deal To Pay Creditors’ Ch. 11 Fees” reports that days after the National Rifle Association's Chapter 11 case was dismissed, the...
A recent Law 360 story by Mike Curley, “After ‘Block Billing’ and ‘Paper Dump,’, Attys Net Only $786K” reports that an Arizona federal judge has awarded $786,472 to attorneys representing...
A recent Law 360 story by Brian Dowling, “Raytheon Balks at Hourly Rate in $8.5M ERISA Fee Ask,” reports that Raytheon Co. has urged a Massachusetts federal judge to shrink what it calls a...
Fee Requests in Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Exceed $100M
May 12, 2021
A recent ABA Journal story by Debra Cassens Weiss, “Fee Applications in Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Exceed $100M; Judge Calls Total ‘Staggering’” reports that the court overseeing the Boy Scouts of...
Federal Circuit Backs $4.2M Fee Award in IP Case
May 11, 2021
A recent Law 360 story by Adam Lidgett, “Fed. Circ. Backs Apple and Cisco’s $4.2M Fee Win in IP Case,” reports that the Federal Circuit has refused to undo a lower court order allowing Apple...
A recent Reuters story by Debra Cassens Weiss, “Wyoming Top Court Sides With Sinclair Refinery On Fee Award Question” reports that a Sinclair refinery can seek attorneys’ fees from Swiss insurer...
A recent Law 360 story by Diana Novak Jones, “UCANN Says It Doesn’t Owe Atty Fees After Patent Suit,” reports that United Cannabis Corp. is fighting CBD company Pure Hemp Collective's bid for...