Litigation

HP Inkjet Printer Litigation

  • 716 F.3d 1173 (9th Cir. 2013)
  • Court Level: District

The Ninth Circuit held that the Class Action Fairness Act requires that when class members obtain coupons in a settlement, the lawyers’ fees attributable to those…

Class Action Fairness

Litigation

Dry Max Pampers Litigation

  • 724 F.3d 713 (6th Cir. 2013)
  • Court Level: Appellate

CCAF objected to this $0 settlement between Proctor & Gamble Company and consumers who purchased certain kinds of Pampers diapers where class counsel requested $2.73…

Class Action Fairness

Litigation

Johnson & Johnson Derivative Litigation

  • No. 10-cv-2033, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167066 (D.N.J. Nov. 25, 2013)
  • Court Level: District

The Center objected to a settlement that paid the class $0, established meaningless corporate governance changes, and paid the attorneys over $10 million: the court…

Class Action Fairness

Litigation

City of Livonia Employees Ret. Sys. v. Wyeth

  • No. 1:07-cv-10329 (RJS), 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 113658 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 7, 2013)
  • Court Level: District

The Center represented a shareholder objecting to a securities class action wherein the $16.5M plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fee request was 4.2 times their normal billing rate.

Class Action Fairness

Litigation

Richardson v. L’Oreal USA

  • 991 F. Supp. 2d 181, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 158599 (D.D.C. Nov. 6, 2013)
  • Court Level: District

The district court sustained the Center’s objection to a settlement over shampoo labeling where the class would receive valueless injunctive relief and the attorneys sought…

Class Action Fairness