Mealey's Attorney Fees
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April 08, 2024
10th Circuit OKs Transfer Of Attorney Fee Request To Lower Court In ERISA Row
DENVER — A 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act dispute over life insurance benefits has granted a beneficiary’s amended motion to transfer consideration of attorney fees on appeal to the trial court.
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April 05, 2024
Entities DOL Sued Over ESOP Deal Want To Appeal 9th Circuit Fee Ruling
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An engineering firm and the individuals who owned it before an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) deal were given a June 6 deadline to seek U.S. Supreme Court review of an Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) ruling declining to make the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) pay attorney fees and nontaxable costs for its unsuccessful case against them.
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April 04, 2024
Dispute Over Attorney Fees In Benicar MDL Stays In Federal Court, Judge Says
CAMDEN, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge refused to send a dispute involving the proper amount of attorney fees that should have been awarded to a law firm for its work in the Benicar multidistrict litigation back to state court, denying a motion to remand filed by a group of plaintiffs.
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April 03, 2024
Magistrate Says AI Produced ‘No Probative Information’ In Fee Dispute
NEW YORK — While a law firm’s reliance on ChatGPT for the proper attorney fee rate in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act suit is novel, the artificial intelligence returned “no probative information” despite producing 14 pages of results, a federal magistrate judge in New York said in awarding, but reducing, requested fees on April 2.
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April 03, 2024
Class Settlement Wins Final Approval In ERISA Annuity Calculation Case
MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin federal judge has granted final approval to a class action settlement with an estimated present value of $900,000 in a suit over claims that married retirees and beneficiaries were “shortchanged” by pension benefits calculated using allegedly outdated mortality and interest rate assumptions.
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April 02, 2024
11th Circuit: Judge Must Explain Denial Of Fees In OpenAI Defamation Case
ATLANTA — Absent some explanation of why a district court judge didn’t award fees and costs after OpenAI LLC admitted that it could not defend removal of a defamation case against it, there is no way to review the ruling, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said April 1 in vacating the ruling and remanding for an explanation.