November 07, 2016
Hausfeld LLP failed to punt a Minnesota state court action brought by two other plaintiffs' firms in a fee-sharing dispute arising from a $42 million settlement between the National Football League and former players when a Minnesota federal judge declined Monday to block the suit.
October 14, 2016
Hausfeld LLP said it is clear that an attorneys' fee dispute with two other firms stemming from their representation of former football players in a $42 million likeness use settlement with the NFL should be heard in the Minnesota federal court that handled the settlement, arguing the other firms' attempt to litigate the issue in a separate state court contract lawsuit is improper.
October 07, 2016
The law firm of former NFL football player and current attorney Bob Stein and another firm hit back on Thursday at an attempt by the firm Hausfeld LLP to enjoin them from pursuing a breach of contract suit in state court over the allocation of fees from a $42 million settlement in Minnesota federal court providing compensation to former NFL players for use of the their likenesses.
April 12, 2016
A Minnesota federal judge ordered that $150,000 of $6.3 million in payments awarded in connection with a $42 million settlement in 2013 that provides for compensation to former NFL players for the use of their likenesses be kept in escrow Tuesday as a loan squabble rages between two involved firms.
April 05, 2016
Attorneys for former NFL players that won a $42 million settlement in 2013 over compensation for the use of their likenesses asked a Minnesota federal court on Monday to withhold $150,000 in fees awarded to law firm Bob Stein LLC, as Zimmerman Reed LLC looks to collect on a loan.
March 23, 2016
A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday ordered the distribution of $6.3 million in attorney fees and settlement awards in connection with the $42 million settlement in 2013 that provides for compensation to former NFL players for the use of their likenesses.
October 10, 2014
A Minnesota federal judge on Friday tossed three former NFL players' publicity rights suit, ruling the use of game footage in NFL Films productions was noncommercial speech and dismissing what was a putative class action before a $42 million settlement the plaintiffs opted out of.
April 25, 2014
A proposed class action accusing the National Football League of violating the publicity rights of former players is "unquestionably" better off in Minnesota court, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Thursday.
November 01, 2013
A Minnesota federal judge on Friday approved a $42 million deal to settle a class action over the National Football League's use of its former players' publicity rights and issued a rebuke to the faction of players who have broken from the class and charged that the settlement is unfair.
October 15, 2013
A group of retired National Football League players who opted out of a $42 million class action settlement of a publicity rights suit urged a Minnesota federal judge on Monday to reject a request by the settling plaintiffs and the NFL to further block separate opt-out litigation.