Recent News About Center for Class Action Fairness
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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.
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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.
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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.
