Mealey's Attorney Fees
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April 18, 2024
Hyundai, Kia Engine Defect Settlement Approved; Attorney Fees Given Partial OK
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A federal judge in California granted final approval of a class settlement agreement providing an extended warranty, recall and product improvements and reimbursements for repairs and other expenses to owners and lessees of certain Hyundai and Kia models that allegedly were built with defective engines that can spontaneously ignite and partially granted a motion for attorney fees, costs and service awards.
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April 17, 2024
Attorney Fee In ERISA Record-Keeping Suit Is Cut To 1/4 Of $4.1M Settlement
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Adopting the approach to attorney fees used in a 2014 decision in a different Employee Retirement Income Security Act case, a Connecticut federal judge on April 16 awarded class counsel a quarter of a $4.1 million class settlement with Xerox Corp. and its retirement plan committee rather than the requested third.
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April 17, 2024
Jack In The Box Workers Partially Awarded Attorney Fees, Costs In Wage Suit
PORTLAND, Ore. — Motions for attorney fees and costs by both sides in a wage-and-hour suit brought by a class of Jack in the Box Inc. workers who saw some success with their claims were partially granted and partially denied by a federal judge in Oregon who ruled that the workers were entitled to a portion of the attorney fees and costs they sought and that the employer was entitled to no attorney fees but was entitled to a portion of the amount it sought for witness fees and other costs.
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April 15, 2024
Oklahoma High Court: Trial Court Failed To Explain Fee Award In Roofing Dispute
OKLAHOMA CITY — In a decade-long dispute over an allegedly defective roofing repair, the Oklahoma Supreme Court found that the trial court erred in granting attorney fees to the defendant roofing company because it failed to adequately explain how it calculated the fee amount.
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April 12, 2024
On Remand, Judge Deems $3.2M Costs, Fees Award In Wawa Data Breach Suit Reasonable
PHILADELPHIA — After scrutinizing the factors and negotiations that resulted in a $3.2 million award of attorney fees, costs and service awards that accompanied the $9 million settlement of a consumer class action over a 2019 data breach experienced by Wawa Inc., a Pennsylvania federal judge found the award to be reasonable in light of relevant case law and similar data breach suits and despite arguments against the award risk by an objector.
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April 11, 2024
U.S. Trustee Seeks Return Of Fees Due To Undisclosed Attorney-Judge Relationship
HOUSTON — A Texas law firm should return more than $400,000 in fees it was awarded for work on mediation in the asbestos bankruptcy case of Hess Corp. affiliate HONX Inc. because it never disclosed a romantic relationship between one of its attorneys and the bankruptcy judge who acted as mediator, the U.S. trustee says in a federal bankruptcy court motion to vacate the fee award and order the firm to pay it back to HONX’s estate as a sanction for its bad faith conduct.
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April 08, 2024
10th Circuit OKs Transfer Of Attorney Fee Request To Lower Court In ERISA Row
DENVER — A 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act dispute over life insurance benefits has granted a beneficiary’s amended motion to transfer consideration of attorney fees on appeal to the trial court.
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April 05, 2024
Entities DOL Sued Over ESOP Deal Want To Appeal 9th Circuit Fee Ruling
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An engineering firm and the individuals who owned it before an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) deal were given a June 6 deadline to seek U.S. Supreme Court review of an Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) ruling declining to make the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) pay attorney fees and nontaxable costs for its unsuccessful case against them.
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April 04, 2024
Dispute Over Attorney Fees In Benicar MDL Stays In Federal Court, Judge Says
CAMDEN, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge refused to send a dispute involving the proper amount of attorney fees that should have been awarded to a law firm for its work in the Benicar multidistrict litigation back to state court, denying a motion to remand filed by a group of plaintiffs.
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April 03, 2024
Magistrate Says AI Produced ‘No Probative Information’ In Fee Dispute
NEW YORK — While a law firm’s reliance on ChatGPT for the proper attorney fee rate in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act suit is novel, the artificial intelligence returned “no probative information” despite producing 14 pages of results, a federal magistrate judge in New York said in awarding, but reducing, requested fees on April 2.
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April 03, 2024
Class Settlement Wins Final Approval In ERISA Annuity Calculation Case
MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin federal judge has granted final approval to a class action settlement with an estimated present value of $900,000 in a suit over claims that married retirees and beneficiaries were “shortchanged” by pension benefits calculated using allegedly outdated mortality and interest rate assumptions.
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April 02, 2024
11th Circuit: Judge Must Explain Denial Of Fees In OpenAI Defamation Case
ATLANTA — Absent some explanation of why a district court judge didn’t award fees and costs after OpenAI LLC admitted that it could not defend removal of a defamation case against it, there is no way to review the ruling, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said April 1 in vacating the ruling and remanding for an explanation.