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In The News . . . . Recent Orange County Register OpEd Article Details The Attorney’s Fees Recovery For Proposition 65 Over The Years

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  Since 2000, About $150 Million—Two-Thirds Of Settlement Payments—Have Gone To Prosecuting Proposition 65 Attorneys.     Dr. Joseph Perrone, Chief Science Officer at the Center for Accountability in Science, has authored an OpEd article in the September 10, 2015 edition of The Orange County Register.  Among other things, he surveys the settlement payments made under […]

In The News . . . . N.D. Cal. District Judge Lucy Koh Approves “No Poaching” Antitrust Class Action Settlement, Awarding $40,043,932.50 In Fees To Class Counsel

Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Lodestar, Cases: Multipliers, In The News

  Award Was Less Than Half Of $81 Million Request, Using Lodestar Billings Augmented By Positive 2.2 Multiplier.     On September 2, 2015, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California gave final approval to a class action settlement by high tech workers challenging on antitrust grounds a “no poaching” pact reached

In The News . . . . Attorney’s Fees Recovery To Southwest Airlines In Patent Infringement Case And To Betty Boop’s Owner/Manatt Phelps In Malicious Prosecution Suit, While Apple Garners Substantial Costs As Prevailing Party In Samsung Smartpho

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  Southwest Airlines Garners Fees, Including Fees Expended in USPTO Reexamination Proceedings.     U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo (S.D Cal.), on August 19, 2015, awarded Southwest Airlines $387,182 in attorney’s fees and costs after USPTO deemed the patent invalid, finding the patent infringement case to be exceptional under 28 U.S.C. § 285 and Octane

News, Celebrities . . . . Plaintiff Losing Patent Infringement Suit Against Justin Timberlake And Britney Spears Get Socked With Octane Fitness Fees

Cases: Celebrities, In The News

  $755,925.86 Is Total Fee/Costs Award Against Large Audience Display.     As we have discussed in many posts, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc., 134 S.Ct. 1749 (2014) has been a real game changer as far as increasing the case-by-case discretion conferred on district judges to

In The News . . . . Indian Tribe And Developer Liable For About $1.9 Million In Fees Incurred By City Of Richmond As Prevailing Party In Canceled Casino Contract Lawsuit

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  $2.15 Million Was The Fee Request.     City of Richmond, through counsel Morrison & Foerster, obtained a motion for judgment on the pleadings in a contract breach suit brought by the Guidiville Rancheria of California, a federally recognized Indian tribe, and affiliate developer of a canceled casino project.  Unfortunately for the losing plaintiffs, there

In The News . . . . Archer Norris Survey Details Top Factors In Choosing Outside Counsel And Most Worrisome Legally Risk-Ladden Cases

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      As summarized in the August 2015 edition of the California Lawyer, Archer Norris conducted a survey in March 2015 of corporate lawyers and other businesspeople about California’s legal climate, with 121 respondents (94% of whom were attorney and more than half working for companies with yearly revenue over $1 billion) providing feedback.     

In The News . . . . 2015 Survey Provides Perceptions On Alternative Fee Arrangements And ABA Provides Its List of Most Important/Influential Legal Movies For Each Decade Since ABA Journal’s 1915 Debut

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  Looks Like Many Corporate Clients See Continued Used of Alternative Fee Arrangements.     According to data from Norton Rose Fulbright’s 2015 Litigation Trends Annual Survey (as summarized in the August 2015 edition of the ABA Journal), which polled law departments both in the U.S. and 26 countries based on 803 corporate counsel responses, alternative

In The News . . . . Class Counsel In BSH Home Appliances Moldy Washer Case Get $6.5 Million In Fees/Expenses Approved And Virginia Standing Committee On Legal Ethics Issues Opinion Helpful To Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Attorneys Getting Paid For Debtor Services

Cases: Bankruptcy Efforts, Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Ethics, In The News

  $55 Cash Payment Under Claims Procedure Was Consideration, With Class Counsel Obtaining $6.5 Million In Fees And Expenses.     In Tait v. BSH Home Appliances Corp., Case No. 8:10-cv-00711 (C.D. Cal. July 27, 2015), U.S. District Judge David O. Carter approved a $6.5 million payment of fees/expenses to class counsel in a case involving

Common Fund/In The News . . . . District Judge Had Jurisdiction To Enforce Contract Between California Firm And Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee In MDL Phases

Cases: Common Fund, In The News

  7% Payment For Use Of Steering Committee’s Work Product Was Proper, Covering Both California State Cases And Other Federal Cases.      In re Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices & Product Liab. Litig., No. 14-2980 (3d Cir. July 2, 2015) (not precedential) involved a dispute between California firm Girardi Keese (GK) and an MDL Plaintiffs’ Steering

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