U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California. Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM 'Totally Out of Control' Attorney Fees in Mass Torts Dodge Appellate Review
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, in a 2021 holding in the multidistrict litigation over Monsanto's Roundup pesticide, called common benefit fees "totally out of control," sending shockwaves throughout the mass torts bar. But the Ninth Circuit, in a five-page unpublished opinion, found it lacked jurisdiction to review the order.
November 08, 2022 at 03:37 PM
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Fee Disputes
Despite the increasingly fractious debate over common benefit fees in multidistrict litigation, appellate review appeared less likely after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this month punted on reviewing a controversial order in the Roundup litigation.
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