11th Circuit Vacates Order Withholding Mandate In Class Incentives Appeal

Mealey's (October 19, 2022, 10:18 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued an order vacating a November 2020 order withholding the issuance of the mandate in an appeal in which it ruled in September 2020 that incentive awards issued as part of a settlement agreement for the class representative’s “‘role in prosecuting th[e] case on behalf of the [c]lass [m]embers’” violated century-old Supreme Court precedent as it is “part salary and part bounty.”...