Center for Class Action Fairness

GEICO settlement asks if 11th Circuit judges will follow directions, cut off payments to class action plaintiffs

By Daniel Fisher | Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020 @ 2:08pm

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge in Florida who in August tentatively approved a class action settlement including $10,000 “incentive fees” to named plaintiffs will now have to decide if final approval is appropriate considering the appellate court immediately above him has since ruled such fees to be illegal.
Lawyers get nothing in troubled class action vs. Navient; Never mentioned agreement with nonprofit

By John O'Brien | Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020 @ 7:15am

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs lawyers won’t recover anything after a federal judge decided to throw their $500,000 in requested fees into a separate fund created by a criticized class action settlement that she otherwise approved.
U.S. SC set to consider public interest firm’s petition for review of Duracell settlement

By Jessica Karmasek | Thursday, Mar 17, 2016 @ 4:27pm

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 18 will consider a petition asking it to review a consumer fraud class action settlement, claiming plaintiffs lawyers “by far” received the largest share of the benefits the settlement produced.