Comments on: AGs: Don’t count sale as class-action remedy http://overlawyered.com/2007/12/ags-dont-count-sale-as-class-action-remedy/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:26:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Members of client class filed $6.1 million in claims… http://overlawyered.com/2007/12/ags-dont-count-sale-as-class-action-remedy/comment-page-1/#comment-36615 Members of client class filed $6.1 million in claims… Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:35:06 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5606#comment-36615 [...] …and the judge hearing an attorneys’-fee petition in the TJX credit-card data-breach case reasoned that the lawyers didn’t really deserve $6.5 million in fees for achieving that result. The lawyers proposed, but the judge was unimpressed with, a theory that their suit had “made available” $200 million to the class, even if few class members stopped by to pick it up. Such sticklers, these judges can be. (Beck and Herrmann, Nov. 11). Related: Dec. 4, 2007. [...] [...] …and the judge hearing an attorneys’-fee petition in the TJX credit-card data-breach case reasoned that the lawyers didn’t really deserve $6.5 million in fees for achieving that result. The lawyers proposed, but the judge was unimpressed with, a theory that their suit had “made available” $200 million to the class, even if few class members stopped by to pick it up. Such sticklers, these judges can be. (Beck and Herrmann, Nov. 11). Related: Dec. 4, 2007. [...]

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